Elephant path in Geneva

Posted: July 26th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I am always amazed by elephant paths (“a name for a path that is formed in space by people making their own paths and shortcuts; it is an unofficial route“):

Elephant path in Geneva

Why do I blog this? this nicely depicts “social navigation” or how the activity of others could be a trigger to your own activity (like footprints in the snow). A previous post about that here.


One Comment on “Elephant path in Geneva”

  1. 1 Peter Dalsgaard said at 11:24 am on July 26th, 2006:

    Dan Hill has a great collection of posts on adaptive design, much in the same vein as elephant paths, on http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/adaptive_design/index.html

    Keep up the brilliant work!


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