Design Study 2 by Robby Goss

Love Park

1. Map of Area


2. Throughout the park, there will be trigger points where people can use their cell phone and call a certain number to hear a unique story about that spot. Some spots, like the Love statue most definitely, will have multiple stories to hear from. When the number is called, a different story is played every time so you can call multiple times and hear a different narrative every time.

3. Rules:
- Roam around the park any way one would like.
- Anytime a you pass a green sign (trigger point) you must call that number to hear a narrative.
- Make conversation with someone at the Love Statue and see if they themselves have any experience here.

I feel making the participants walk around at random would be better cause they would hit the more popular areas more often. This would allow them to call the popular areas more often allowing them to hear more narratives about the same area. Also with the rule of making conversation with another person around the statue would give people a chance to have an experience of their own and possibly add it to the collection of narratives so it’s always growing and can be walked many times without repetition.

4. I was once at Love Park here standing at the statue taking pictures like anyone else would. It was an eventful night i must say. There was this one couple in particular you was all dressed up there, as though they had just come from a fancy restaurant and that this was the last stop on their date for the evening. Then they asked if i could take some pictures of them for them. Of course i would I told them. Then happily they went on a little stroll in the park. I saw them sitting on a bench nearby when they approached me again yet this time they seemed to be a bit more enthused. He asked “Im really sorry to bother you again but can you just take one more picture of us? I just asked her to marry me.” It made me almost giddy inside and i felt honored to take one more photo of them. It just shows that this is truly “Love” Park.


I felt Love Park was a good place to represent these sort of narratives cause even though its kind of cheesy, its that kind of feeling everyone wishes they had. Kind of a fairy tale feeling. It comforts us knowing others have had these experiences and so we come to this spot hoping to look for love as those before us have. Whether it be the love of the area like skateboarders have acquired, or the love of our lives.