Scan car conversation piece – Master Digital Design project
Student Projects
In this project, students from AUAS – Master Digital Design explored how a scan car can communicate what it is doing while driving around the city. An interesting question, especially when the scan car is going to detect several objects at the same time for different purposes.
The students started by talking to passers-by. The students approached them with a picture of a scan car to find out what their existing knowledge of scan cars was, what their views on the subject were, and their needs for communication by scan cars. Next, the students made a conversation tool: a 3D physical cardboard replica of a scan car on which different communication elements could be placed by the respondents. The difference between a one-sided application such as parking control and multiple scanning applications was incorporated into the communication elements the respondents could choose from.
Next to the cardboard conversation piece, the students worked on workshop material for a dialogue about scan cars and the communication of their purposes. They also designed a guerilla poster campaign, two digital versions of the cardboard conversation piece, and a canvas for a design session with citizens and stakeholders. Applying the conversation piece and the other developed materials contributes to understandability, but also to contestability when it is used with a mixed group (e.g. citizens and civil servants).
The digital materials including the report of the students can be found below.