Community: I chose to work with the community of bus travellers in London
Case study: Bus No. 52 from Victoria to Willesden

Need: How would a communication channel faciliate the desire to talk to other people on the bus without revealing one's identity?

Themes Explored:
1. Everyday urban travel is getting increasingly monotonous, boring and exhausting. How can these journeys become amusing and enjoyable?
2. What are the relationships between the transient populations of everyday journeys?
3. How curious are we to know more about people whom we travel with everyday, people we see and sometimes acknowledge, yet do not interact with?
4. Mobile phones, ipods and walkmans take us into new digital spaces, disconnecting us from the close physical proximity of fellow travellers. But could there be a reversal? Or an alternative path? Could one leap into other people’s digital spaces, maybe as a voyeur, an eavesdropper, even a snooper?
5. Would this entry into the digital spaces of strangers develop relationships, or would people prefer to remain anonymous and happy with passing encounters?