The Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO) method.

Dec 9, 2020 | Research

The Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO) method.    The Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO) method is used to study the behavioural and tacit patterns of users in their natural environment. It is used when other obtrusive methods like questionnaires and...

Conversational circularity in Public Spaces

Jan 30, 2020 | Life in the Day, Research

The high desirability and scarcity of urban spaces often lets its usages be fluid, layered and multi-faceted. In Hong Kong the area next to the central station (streets, pavements and parts of the station) transforms every Sunday and on public holidays into a maze of...

The Public in Public Transportation

Jan 29, 2020 | Life in the Day, Research

The Public in Public Transportation   The rapid gentrification of our cities has driven out the middle and the lower classes to the suburbs. The Brookings Institute’s report on the global metro⁠, states how the emerging markets are city focussed. 300 of the...

harmonising Human Material Interaction (hHMI) within spaces in flow

Nov 8, 2018 | Research

‘Our technological advancements have connected and alienated us simultaneously from our material world and our perception of it.’   Shalini’s works largely aim to create spaces which positively influence the users’ state of being. This as a part of an...

Shalini Sahoo

Nov 8, 2018 | Students

‘Intentions define the essential nature of everything we create and eventually become a part of.’   In Shalini’s works and her dealings, to question this basic intention is of prior importance. As a practitioner in design Shalini Sahoo has been conversing for...