{"id":3976,"date":"2017-07-16T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T10:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/exploringinteractions\/?page_id=3976"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:34:46","slug":"street-debaters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/exploringinteractions\/street-debaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Debaters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBy:\u00a0<\/strong>Tomo Kihara
\nTutors:<\/strong> Stefan van de Geer & Mark van Huystee
\nKeywords:\u00a0<\/strong>Tactical Urbanism, Social Interaction, Begging<\/p>\n

Design Goal
\n<\/strong>To increase the dignity and income of people with no particular skills that is begging on the streets with the aim of connecting them back to society.<\/p>\n

Interaction vision
\n<\/strong>Children playing on a seesaw.
\nIt should be equal, playful, honest and apparent<\/p>\n

Street Debaters
\n<\/strong>Street debating is a social alternative to begging that collects public opinions with coins. It aims to be the first doable step for vulnerable people without any skills to stop begging.\u00a0<\/span>Through evoking a friendly conversation as an equal with the passerby, it aims to recover their dignity and connect them back to society.
\nThis research is followed a research through design approach (Zimmerman, 2007). Through multiple design research iterations that was done in co-creation with homeless people, several prototypes were introduced into real street settings for evaluation.\u00a0On average, street debating earns 13.5 pounds per hour and also stops 12.5 people for a friendly conversation.<\/p>\n