Visible, Invisible - Bangkok
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-10-27 by mufaddalhussain
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1414414343246457.jpeg I had to combine two images to correctly explain the situation in the streets of Bangkok. Both images are of the same street in the central business district on Silom Road. **Visible Information** The images clearly show the street during the day as a thoroughfare, connecting two parallel blocks. At night, this thoroughfare is closed down and is transformed into a night market with barely any place to walk through, let alone drive! **Invisible information** Because of its central location and time of the day, vendors put up their stalls along this street to catch the attention of the evening crowd returning from work and tourists who are out to enjoy the night life. There are pubs and bars along this street which open at night and hence there is heavy pedestrian movement until about 3-4am. The local vendors make use of this heavy pedestrian movement to make their sales. I like to refer this as "Crowd designing" - where makeshift/temporary stalls litter the entire street depending on where and when people gather, a common phenomenon found in many developing SE Asian countries.