Where do you [SIT] ?

Observations from Gorlestzer Park:

I found people sitting alone would prefer to sit around the out side of the “bowl” like grass area. Perhaps this was due to the fact they like to be able to look down onto others sitting below them, also because they didn’t want to place themselves down in the middle of the grass bowl be-cause they didn’t want to be watched.

I wondered if this observation I made in the park would also ap-pear in the Dining room. Would peo-ple who were eating alone sit around the edges and corners of the room?

Based on my observation of the Dining Room on the 22nd of July, it shows that, like at the park, singles sit towards the edge and groups of peo-ple take up the middle area.

This raises questions for me...

What would happen if I sat as a “sin-gle” in the middle of the Dining Room?Would people sit with me? Becoming embodied as part of the larger group.

Or would I create a separation in the way they embodied the space as a whole the day before (22nd of July) ?

7.10 am7.20

7.307.40

7.508.00 am

Where People sat in the Dining Room over breakfast.I am the purple dot, the green dot are school children.

Embodiment of the group...

22nd of July: Without my interfer-ence, green blobs are and organic mapping of the school children em-bodying the space as a whole group.

23rd of July. 7.00 - 7.20am. Red dot is me in the middle and other dot is lauren sitting alone on the side.

23rd of July. 7.20 - 7.40 am.

Observations of comparison:

As a single sitting in the middle of the dining room my influence managed to “dis” embody the group. Previously they had sat to-gether within close proximity and present a group rather than indi-vidual small pockets of people. However when I placed myself in the centre of the dining room they left a considerable amount of room around me and their groups became smaller pockets of peo-ple embodying the room rather than a large group embodiment.

By Lauren Siemonsma.