Group Meeting (November 11)

Today we met on the 5th Street Bridge. It was raining and we did not want to be there, but we stuck it out in the name of Augmented Reality Designers across the world.

The Space

Fifth Street Bridge over I85










A (relatively) recently renovated space on campus, this park-like area situated right next to Tech Square is a fairly under-used space with a great deal of potential. It currently is used for private recreational activities (Frisbee, dog walking, etc.), tailgating on football game days, and occasionally for large-scale events (Taste of Atlanta, Flicks on Fifth, etc.). Having considered several other options first, including the Campanile and Skiles Courtyard, it was determined that our space should be one currently underutilized with a great deal of potential and a high flow of traffic. The Fifth Street Bridge was intended to be a pleasant green space in midtown for Tech students and other locals, but it is still primarily used as just a bridge from East Campus to Tech Square. Our goal is to transform this unique space into a place people can use, or a place people want to visit because of it's features. While our ultimate goal is still somewhat unclear, the seemingly limitless possibilities of our space—situated between residential campus housing, above an interstate, an near a commercial and business district—should provide us ample options in terms of designing an augmented reality system.

Potential Space Brainstorming

What makes a space a place?

Brainstorming:
-CULC Construction Site
-Who's inside the library?
-Swing behind the CoC parking lot facing gravel path
-Secret Garden (under Mickey Mouse clock)
-Biotech quad
-Bus Stop -> somehow incorporate nextbus app?
-Freshman Hill
-Stadium
-Skiles Breezeway
-Skiles Courtyard
-Ice-cream cone statue in front of Ferst Center.
-----leave flyers on a database and filter?
-Personal tagging of places
-----"Tweet" about personal significance a location has to you
-----Filter by friends, anonymous, historical implications, etc.
-Campanile
-Flat walls as a surface with pictures
-Historical district
-Evolution of buildings over time.
-Zombie apocalypse. ->"The Zombie Zone"



Filtered:
-CULC Construction Site
--Evolution of buildings over time.
-Personal tagging of places
-----Twitter-like?
-----"Tweet" about personal significance a location has to you.
-----Post photos, images, music?
-----Filter by friends, anonymous, historical implications, etc.
-----Timeline and focus
-Campanile - "The Shaft"



People are already connected, how can we connect them more?
Fifth Street Bridge