Interface WDKA

Interactions in WDKA

MyWDKA website

Publication station

Printing station: printers, cash machine, line

Smoking outside the WDKA

The bridge between Blaak and Wijnhaven

Lunch at the Willem

Microsoft Teams

Store

Entrance

Teacher room

DoKa

Staircases

Student and teacher feedback

Users

Students

Teachers

Staff

Visitors

The Bridge

The Bridge between Blaak and Wijnhaven was an interaction I immediately thought of. Every day many students, teachers, and employees of the Willem de Kooning Academy make use of this passage. With our current crisis, we all have to have 1.5-meter distance, changing our complete way of living, also at a school like the WDKA.

The passage between the two buildings is very slim, making it difficult for people to keep the assigned distance from each other. As a solution for this, I thought of a traffic light that regulates the passage. However, with finding a solution to this problem I also have to take into account the fact that many people now will wait in front of the bridge, which could then again cause problems.

Location App

Since the WDKA is a massive gathering place for many students the new 1.5-meter lifestyle will be a great challenge. How will lessons continue, how will we manage cues in front of the coffee machine, etcetera?
For this, I thought of creating an app that could track people’s location and thus locate areas that are crowded and which are empty.
We could then see where everybody is and manage the situation better. This is made visible through a colored map, showing the crowded (darker red) and more empty (green) areas. This then helps students, teachers, and staff to know whether it is safe to stay at a distance in a certain room.

Another feature that I thought of was somewhat like “find my friends” where you can locate a specific person. People would have to grant permission for sharing their name and location to allow others to locate them personally.

The name of the app, Where’s Willem? is a reference to Willem de Kooning himself, as if he were a student to be located.

Karitiro

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