Visual research = looking for ideas

Pedestrian mapping seemed like it might be a relevant avenue of research for the museum-labyrinth ... but why? As I looked at the images available on this topic it quickly became clear that my hunch was way off base - this is a field that is far more technical (or outraged!) than anything I need in this project. However a few images seen in the quick scroll-through did raise a few thoughts.

First this map-glove, made for the 1851 Great Exhibition and never commercially produced -

Detours and crossings - characteristics of certain categories of mazes - and potentially dangerous in real life -

Obstruction, re-routing

Public footpath across the Huddersfield-Manchester main line

A quieter crossing

Marked street crossings - these bring to mind the almost-subliminal way that people are directed around shops by the use of different kinds of flooring -

aha, that could be relevant ... either for taking the idea further, or for validating my thinking so far. The maze on the ground, the walking-maze ... which also directs the walker's path. Thoughts about "commercial pilgrimmage" in department stores, malls, etc.

Somewhere I have photos of the green line that leads from Old St station to Moorfields Eye Hospital ... I love the way it's so definitive and goes over different surfaces and all sorts of disruptions in the pavement. This is not part of it! -

Photo by Gordon Joly

Don't forget signposts -