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The Power of an Autistic Lens: Visualising Activity in Shared Public Space
The explicit zoning of space into activities, and an understanding shared by all people who share the same space, contribute to social imagination and reduce autistic anxiety focused on unknown and unimaginable future happenings in the immediate vicinity. Knowing where to place oneself with respect to action is calming. Video processing provides a method of visualising motion through a designed space and to find ways to explicitly demarcate the spatial boundary (the locus, in mathematical terms) of an activity. Desire lines and their intersections can be exposed with video analysis to delineate regions within an activity and between activities. Regions of differing motion intensity may be perceived as anxiety-provoking or calming by autistic people. Images of completed actions or activities, the loci, are in themselves an interesting and often aesthetic outcome with value as inputs to the design process. Activity loci identify both potential conflict between different activities which share a space, and the potential to rearrange space and activity to promote peaceful co-existence of potentially competing activities—and zones for self-calming inactivity—within the same shared space.
The Power of an Autistic Lens: Visualising Activity in Shared Public Space
The explicit zoning of space into activities, and an understanding shared by all people who share the same space, contribute to social imagination and reduce autistic anxiety focused on unknown and unimaginable future happenings in the immediate vicinity. Knowing where to place oneself with respect to action is calming. Video processing provides a method of visualising motion through a designed space and to find ways to explicitly demarcate the spatial boundary (the locus, in mathematical terms) of an activity. Desire lines and their intersections can be exposed with video analysis to delineate regions within an activity and between activities. Regions of differing motion intensity may be perceived as anxiety-provoking or calming by autistic people. Images of completed actions or activities, the loci, are in themselves an interesting and often aesthetic outcome with value as inputs to the design process. Activity loci identify both potential conflict between different activities which share a space, and the potential to rearrange space and activity to promote peaceful co-existence of potentially competing activities—and zones for self-calming inactivity—within the same shared space.
The Power of an Autistic Lens: Visualising Activity in Shared Public Space
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Mostafa, Magda (editor) / Baumeister, Ruth (editor) / Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard (editor) / Tamke, Martin (editor) / Neilson, Stuart (author)
World Congress of Architects ; 2023 ; Copenhagen, Denmark
2023-09-03
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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