Group 32

This week was our review of the market Impossible Things. Individual Reflections: Ruth Johnson: The market had a nice flow, there was a consistent atmosphere and their use of sound and lighting worked really well and effectively conveyed their theme. Their fictitious approach really worked with the theme of Impossible Things and this was consistent through all of their market stalls. I believe their system of exchange was experiences? Though there was a mix of a few physical things in some of the stalls, like glow sticks/pills/sherbet etc... However although this changed slightly between each stall, they were all similar enough in the effect they had on customers that it was mostly imperceptible. I did notice that although to some degree their use of snapchat to advertise their market was semi-successful, it did also make me feel after a while that I'd already seen the entirety of the market before we'd even been? Perhaps if this were to be replicated it would be more ef...

Ruth Johnson: This week was our final prototype market, we did well at taking a lot of the feedback forward from the first prototype market and making these changes this week. By now we've also already gotten a lot of our decorations ready and so we were able to make a better replica of how our stall might look overall. This week was when we discussed further in detail how we wanted to arrange the hanging paper cranes. In this trial market we were hanging all of the cranes participants made on string hanging above how heads, however we discovered this was really unpractical as we kept bumping into it which is a health and safety hazard. We're thinking of maybe just hanging a few premade cranes as decoration in the above corner, and having the other cranes on the wall? (as shown in floor plans below) Also in the images below are the notes we took from the verbal feedback we were given in this practice market. David Huang: Run Sheet: 4pm – 6pm, Tuesday 3 rd of Oc...

The feedback we received from the prototype market, included more of a "one on one" experience for the visitor, as we had instructions out to showing step by step instructions on how to create a paper plane, visitors to our stall found that the instructions hindered us as it felt like there was a disconnection from us as a "trader" to our "consumer". The main cause of this was because the consumer was too engrossed on following looking at the directions instead of listening and watching us demonstrate to them how to fold the paper. In order to fix this problem we as a group decided that for our real market, we were going to demonstrate to the consumer instead of providing a instruction sheet, therefore the link from us as a trader to the consumer would be met. Another thing that we could improve based off the feedback from the prototype market is maybe folding different things, for example based on the difficulty of a origami object we would teach how to f...