Certain behavior occurs regardless of the presence of the crate and ladder. Guests remove and add pegs, release balls down the tracks, as well as attempt to get a peg as high up on the wall using their own heights (sometimes kids mistake the wall for a rockclimbing mechanism).
After the preliminary 15 minutes of observation, we commenced collecting data for furniture rearrangement.
1:25 p.m. Trial 1 | Moved peg crate to underneath wall signage (on the right side of terrace door).
1:40 p.m. Trial 2 | Moved ladder toward wall peg crate was moved to (on the right side of terrace door, but to the left of the crate).
1:42 p.m. A couple of kids notice the crate without moving the ladder or taking out/putting in pegs.
1:47 p.m. A kid with glasses struggles to move the ladder back against the Roll-It-Wall.
The kid with glasses successfully moves the ladder to the benefit of other kids.
1:50 p.m. Trial 3 | Moved peg crate up directly against Roll-It-Wall (left side of terrace door).
A couple of younger guests take out and put pegs in the crate.
2:00 p.m. We end our observation.
There are a couple of implications for the effects furniture rearrangement seems to have on guest engagement. Furniture arrangement can affect behavior, as certain furniture (i.e. the ladder at Roll-It-Wall) is quintessential for a specific learning experience. Thus, guests will move furniture to where it's needed if it's missing.
I was inspired to think of other furniture arrangement possibilities at MOXI, and I wonder what moving the two tables at KEVA and the one table by the terrace into a large KEVA communal table would look like. Would it function the same as when the KEVA tables are lined up in the bridge, would having one big dining-looking area force people to build at KEVA rather than isolate themselves, and could it lead to new structures being built?
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