Have you ever noticed anything in everyday life that is wrong? or rather it doesn’t make sense or fit ? There was this project titled ‘Wrong’ given to us as a part of Practise 1 – Design. We were supposed to look around the world and record anything that annoys us and describe it in our own words and present it on an A3 board. This was the task given to us.

Well it sounded easy but as a designer I actually had to take something that made sense and also something that is related to design as a masters student. I always believe that a designer sees differently due to the various tasks, projects given to us on a daily basis, to think out of the box and come with something common and understandable at the same time unique.

There was this thing I always had with doors!! Not their shape or the way they were designed or anything as such, but their mechanism! Especially these automatic doors, it made no sense to me in the first few days of my life in London and in my university. It says ‘automatic doors, stand clear’ but at the same time it says ‘push to exit’ or ‘push bar to exit’. My thoughts were filled with lines such as ‘If its automatic shouldn’t it just open, if not why is it automatic in the first place?’.

                                               Image source : press to exit, automatic doors

So I took up this issue as a part of my ‘Wrong’ project and presented it. I had used pictures of the doors in university and the doors of the rail trains in London as an example. I stated the caption as “Automatic doors or Problematic doors?”

When I presented, I got a review from my peers and my classmates that indeed this is an issue faced. And also for the following project right after this, was to find a solution to what we proposed for the ‘Wrong’ project. I am browsing about the mechanisms of how the automatic doors work and their sensors. Lets see what I present next week!!