Urban design: 4 lectures on creating navigation schemes in the subway and not only



    I was recently in the Spotlight , where designers (project managers) gathered who were engaged in improving navigation in the subway (and not only in the subway) in Moscow and Kiev.

    Alexei Radchenko came from Moscow to this lecture session, who led the development of a unified transport navigation system for Moscow (and the metro too) in 2014.

    The lectures will discuss:
    - What is navigation?
    - what should it be?
    - How to make it convenient and understandable for people and how to constantly improve it?
    - How to interact with all kinds of "reinforced concrete" in the image of thought by the state bodies that are responsible for navigation?
    - examples of navigation design from other cities
    - guys from Agents Zmin"talked about how they created navigation schemes for the Kiev metro
    - how do studios (not Lebedev) that specialize in developing and designing navigation schemes for cities work?
    and much more about the design of the urban environment in terms of navigation. The lecture is made up with slides to you can immediately visually see examples of what the speaker says.

    lectures will be of interest to anyone interested in design in general, urban design and the design of navigation schemes in particular. also, the lecture will be of interest to the Project manager Since all that is connected with urban design projects require great skill to operate than conventional business projects. That only is constantly working with government agencies and the approval of all projects in these departments.

    Lecture on the creation of a unified transport navigation in Moscow in 2014


    The guys from Zmin Agents talked about how they created the schemes for the Kiev metro. Particularly interesting is how the guys investigated the question: how they collected information, how they worked “in the field”, how they made up the conceptual diagram of the technical-technical documentation (decision points), etc.

    Lecture by Yuri Granovsky on the development of scenarios for navigation systems, using the redesign of Kiev metro schemes as an example. Of particular interest was the scheme that they developed for the key stations of the Kiev metro. For example, a person faces a transition and how many options does he have: 3? 4? 10? And I especially liked that, it turns out, not only it seemed to me that the transitions between Khreshchatyk and Maidan Nezalezhnosti are incomprehensible to anyone, especially the newcomer, but one who has not been there for a long time, painfully recalls every time - but what transitionto dive a cave (and most importantly then you will not leave this cave)? And the number of those who made the mistake of the transition is very large, I am not the only one!

    I especially liked this scheme of TPR points - I did not expect that there could be so many of them.




    Igor Sklyarevsky, in conjunction with the previous lecture, talked about how they explored the issue, because it’s good to sit in the office and develop a design for the metro, but it would be better if you do it with your own feet, i.e. with your feet (body) measure the distance / time of the transition from station to station, etc. A stunning discovery for me was that those aunts who are on duty at such hub stations answer up to 500 questions a day from the passengers of the subway “How do I get there?”, Although there seems to be a scheme (information) - but they does not work. For research, the guys pretended to be such “losses” to find out what a person who wants to comfortably use the Kiev metro needs. Then they put on vests with the letter “and” and were such volunteers who helped such “losses” find their way, and, accordingly,



    The second lecture by Alexey Radchenko on maps and industrial design for urban design. A few words about maps, about why electronic maps are not suitable for offline navigation, about what they should be, then a very big and interesting part about what materials are made of signs / plates / displays, etc. about which carriers are used for what purposes - its use depends on the carrier, an important point is the price of these carriers for the city, interchangeability. All this with examples, not only from Kiev / Moscow, but also from other cities.




    For me personally, such lectures always help in solving completely different issues that have absolutely nothing to do with design as something graphic, because design (according to Victor Papanek) is always the solution to the problem in the first place, and graphic content is only the end result , and not always the result can be graphic, the main result is the solution to the problem, therefore, I believe that all people are to some extent designers.


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