Stairs Brainstorming
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Goals
I intend to use the South Side Slope’s public pedestrian stairs as a venue for neighbors to asynchronously interact with one another, ultimately creating ambient relationships amongst neighbors and with their environment
Reoccurring Themes
- Asynchronous Interaction
- Ambient Play
- Co-creation
- Community Communication
- Integration with day to day activities
1. Visualization
who is using the stairs now? When do people use the stairs?
2. Polls
What do people on the stairs think?
3. Trivia
Which set of stairs is smartest?
4. Community Board
Question of the day - What do people think? With answers from the previous day from each staircase
5. Community Stair Art
Chalk for people to draw on the stairs, maybe outlined before
6. Musical Stairs
Each stair is a musical instrument, Online recordings of the music people make
7. Stair Scavenger Hunt
Each staircase has an item to find
8. Ambient sound
Records the sounds of the staircases
9. Telephone between stairs
Staircases can call each other
10. Stair Photos
Weekly collages of staircase photos taken by passerbys with a fixed camera
11. Texting Game
Each staircase answers trivia questions or poll questions via text, get response with url to see answers
12. Jigsaw Puzzle Board
A puzzle people can work on as they walk by
13. Magnetic Poetry Board
People can create messages to interact with
14. Stair Pet
A mascot that wanders from staircase to staircase, like where’s waldo. people who find the mascot can send a photo text of it
15. Group Drawings
Boards that allow passers by to draw on them, creating a collaborative drawing
16. Asynchronous board games
Tic Tac Toe, Chess, Checkers, Crossword Puzzles, all played as a community
17. Augmented Reality
Mobile game played on the stairs via smartphone
18. Stairs of Secrets
People can leave messages or secrets or wishes
19. Photobooth
People can get their photo taken on the way
20. Webcam of Stairs
Online surveillance of stairs
21. Communicate with the Stairs
From home, create sounds to be heard by people in
22. Stair Ad Libs
Ad Libs created by the stairs daily, next day read the results
23. Boardgames amongst Stairs
Passers by on stairs can play amongst eachother
24. Who’s there?
Stairs let people know what kind of activity goes on at the other end
25. Tweeting Stairs
Each staircase can have a twitter station where residents can express themselves however they’d like to
26. Stairs as Controllers
Each Staircase controls a digital mural that can be found online
27. Chatting Stairs
Chatting stations amongst stairs and online/mobile
28. Call the Stairs
Call a phone number and listen to the sounds of the stairs on the phone
29. Chutes and Ladders
Place slides around the neighborhood and play real life chutes and ladders
30. Slides next to Stairs
Encourage people to travel through the neighborhood by placing slides next to the stairs
31. Community Bulletin Board
Allowing Residents to self organize through the staircases
32. Trading Post
Take an item, leave an item
33. I Spy on the Stairs
With a Chalkboard, “I Spy With My Little Eye_______”
34. I Spy a ____ From the Top/Bottom of the Stairs
Motivate people to use the stairs so they can see what’s on the other side
35. Feelings Chart
People can circle how they feel on the feeling chart
