{"id":435,"date":"2010-09-23T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2010-09-23T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:28:30","slug":"pinching-the-network-the-potential-of-the-cta-l-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/2010\/09\/pinching-the-network-the-potential-of-the-cta-l-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinching the Network: The Potential of the CTA L Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pinching the CTA Network: The potential of the L-station<\/p><\/div>\n

Most feel that our built environment is passive\u2014
\nProbably because the general population\u2019s depth of interaction with it is only skin-deep\u2014using it only as a backdrop for society\u2019s movements.<\/p>\n

I propose that this interaction vector is flipped, instead of people acting on the built environment, the built environment acts on them. <\/p>\n

In theory, this is already happening in public transportation with a simple object in the system:<\/p>\n

You can think of the turnstile as an object to be acted on, but I propose that the turnstile acts on the users, filtering and funneling each individual that walks through it with a finite shared experience (same fare, same space, same activity, and so on). <\/p>\n

Thus, for a moment a civic, democratic space is created with the exact same constraint or input, the turnstile. <\/p>\n

Users are entering a network both figuratively and literally in which the input constraint is the same; but the end nodes are infinite. <\/p>\n

(But, the potential space is often undermined by uncomfortable environments, which harbor noise and air pollution, security risks, lack of personal space, disorienting paths, etc. )
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\nI think this \u201ccivic space\u201d condition and network infrastructure could and should be transposed to any built environment. <\/p>\n

While the actor is the turnstile in this specific example; an actor can embody any media or process including spatial structure, materiality or responsive systems, etc. <\/p>\n

If an active space can be created which manifests a unique finite, shared experience, maybe the infinite societal network can become parallel; fostering a socially efficient space which provides agency to users in addition to utility, program, and aesthetics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most feel that our built environment is passive\u2014 Probably because the general population\u2019s depth of interaction with it is only skin-deep\u2014using it only as a backdrop for society\u2019s movements. I propose that this interaction vector is flipped, instead of people acting on the built environment, the built environment acts on them. In theory, this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,61,57,60,59],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-agency","tag-cta","tag-network","tag-systems","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}