This picture a cashier use a box under his feet in a tube bus stop in Curitiba, located near to the municipal botanic garden. This tube is situated in a big avenue where a lot of people ca many bussies all day long. In tubes bus stop, the sides are open to the outside enviroment, and when its raining, its impossible dont let water get in to the tube, so cashier use this kind of box to protect their feet from water puddles.
Info
- Item author
- Lucas Martinichen
- Item Created
- 16 Jun 2010
- Photo taken on
- 15 Jun 2012 3:30 pm
- 16 Jun 2010 3:57 am
- Photo author
- Lucas Martinichen
Context of the observation
Location
Av. Pres. Affonso Camargo, 2239 - Cristo Rei, Curitiba - PR, 80050-370, Brasil, Curitiba
Brazil
Brazil
1 Interpretation
In this case, the cashiers that use the same workspace, changing shifts, use the same box under their feet. This wood box protects the feet from water. When its raining water stocks, creating puddles in the floor. With the box their feet and personal things donât get wet.
Itâs interesting how all the cashiers use and maintain the same box in the workspace. They all know that is a needed and those they may use that again. The act of using the box is cultural and almost all the tubes have a box.
4 Questions & 0 Responses
How can the box or other pretences and interventions, create relations between the cashiers from different shits, as on take anotherâs place?
Would be interesting for those cashiers that donât like and donât feel comfortable with the box, have a different kind of solution?
It would be necessary to change the workspace, giving the cashier differently environment from the rest of the tube? How this could be done?
But would the cassier not even feel worse if he is kept further in the tube?