January 30th, 2011 by Rachel | Tags: Anthropology, Environment, Material Culture, Video | No Comments »
It often takes creative minds to change the design of materials or the landscape without changing the function in order to lure people into using the material or the space more effectively. A group of people redesign the staircase at a subway station to attract people to walking up and down the stairs than to go on escalators so that people would exercise. Here is a video presenting this grand idea: