Arriving Places, Departing Spaces

Arriving Spaces, Departing Places is a speculative design project examining how public transportation and mobility can elevate passengers’ sense of health and well-being. The work is centered around addressing ways in which current transit systems in American cities can generate meaningful engagement with its community and the built environment. Thus, encouraging reclamation within our civic spaces for leisure and tourist travelers. The project is formulated into a single conceptual product called Flow, an ambient wearable device. Flow comes in the form of a personal bag tag and mobile application that negotiates preset interactions among passengers, transit services, and amenities. Therefore aiming to keep the flow of information, capacity, reliability, and discovery at the fingertips of users which will complement their established travel routine. Centering the experience around a sense of care for the passengers, not the vehicles that mobilize us to different spaces.