MAPPING OF YELAHANKA

MAPPING OF YELAHANKA

We were told about how usually design has only the target market of a Youth Man.  It is very unfair to women, elderly and also children. The roads, the buildings, the stairs, are all very uncomfortably designed towards them.

Our assignment was to map around yelahanka the parts on roads, or the place that was in accessible towards children, women , the elderly and the physically challenged.

Our group went around the place. We found a lot of footpaths that were open and were dangerous for the blind, pregnant women and kids. The footpaths were also very uneven. Anyone could easily get a sprain by twisting their legs or something. The gutters are also open since a lot of time. At a certain place, the pipes have been lying on the footpath as well as the road since May and nothing has been done about that.

As hygiene factor,  a lot of garbage has been dumped on the roads just randomly. The place lacks dustbin or even BMC cleaning.

There are many parks around, which are good quality for people  to relax, job or even come for a small picnic. There are particular parks for the elderly. They’re small and are for the elderly to sit on the benches in a green fresh environment and just talk around.  There is a football ground as well as a basketball court for kids of various ages to play. There is also a childrens park which is for the younger aged kids. That shows that if something needs to be done, it can be done very effectively.

Some stores and footpaths had slope for the wheelchair to pass or just for the reduction of stairs and the effort that follows with it.

It was very astonishing that we don’t notice it in our daily lives but for others it might be a task to just walk on the roads.

As a student of design, it makes me aware of the injustice that’s done to the people when we design anything, Its like a lesson that we must also consider them in our design.

We also learnt how to make a map using our ‘craziness”. It took a lot of time to decide how to go about a crazy map. Even while making  a map, we have to careful about so many things and also how we present it.

It was a good learning.