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Mockup of design #1 on concrete
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Mockup of design #1 in environment.
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Plan drawing of design #1. The text is a quote from civil engineer Samuel Florman.
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Mockup of design #2 in environment.
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Plan drawing of design #2. The text is a few lines from Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise."
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Mockup of design #3 in environment.
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Plan drawing of design #3. The text is from Ha Jin's poem, "A Center."
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Mockup of design #4 in environment.
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Plan drawing of design #4. The text is from Langston Hughes' poem, "I Look at the World."
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Mockup of design #5 in the environment.
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Plan drawing of design #5. The text is from Tishani Doshi's poem, "How to be Happy in 101 Days."
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One idea for "easter eggs" to place at various seating areas was a set of simple dots with quotes on them.
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Possible locations for the dots, all at the foot of benches and seating areas.
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Another idea was to use a spiral motif, encouraging the viewer to look outwards from where they were.
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The spirals reflect the idea that our actions impact others, and this can be used in a positive way.
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The third idea was to connect people to each other by using wide ribbons on the ground.
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The ribbons would lead from one bench to another, or from one side of the bench to another.
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Drawing from the same inspiration as the spirals, these radiating dot patterns draw the eye outward.
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Plan view of the dot patterns, which reflect a message of joy and hope.
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The final idea, developed for the rest of this project, was to emulate ripples in a pond when a stone or drop of water is dropped in.
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These ripples represent the positive changes that can be created when we act on something we care about.
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Instead of nesting the text inside the concentric rings, longer quotes and pieces of poems form the rings themselves.
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These five designs ended up in the final mockups.