As part of the Department of Making + Doing, we want to get to know the comings and goings of people in and around our space. We’re going to take an urban planning lens to this activity, and we’ve gotten our hands on a few Waycount traffic and a Hi-Viz bike counter. Come out with us this Saturday to learn how to use these tools and help measure the traffic. We’ll have some of the people who created these tools, and are part of Planning Corps in NYC. Afterwards we’ll take our counts back to The Hacktory/DM+D and explore how to visualize them and what further questions we want to ask.
All participants will then be able to deploy the traffic counters to take measurements in other locations throughout the city over the next few weeks. We’ll then meet up for a data jam later this summer to compile our data and make sense of it together.
This event is funded by a grant from Art Place America, so tickets are fee, but please register to help us get a head count beforehand.