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Topic or Focus and working title	Examining how people in Delhi react to benches in public spaces.
Justification (Why this topic or focus? What is the purpose of your research for you and for a wider audience? Why is it useful?)	Relationship to theory While attempting to observe people in a mall as part of an exercise. I found a lot could be inferred from how people were behaving, reacting to the space and the people around them, by looking at people on a single bench. I was interested in studying aspects of human behavior and the bench greatly appealed to the observer in me. The bench in an object made for sitting on, it is primarily used in public spaces, as such, it becomes a space within a public space where people pause, often react to their environment. I want to understand this space to gain a unique perspective on behavior in public spaces of people in Delhi. Relevance to you practice The research will help me understand behaviors, postures, build narrative, and develop the characters that I will use in my story development in my degree project. Relevance to the external environment The research may be useful for city planners and architects designing for public spaces in Delhi, It may help writers, journalists, filmmakers and the like, to help make a comment on Delhi’s people in public places. It may help advertisers and market researchers identify a gap in the functioning on the space, or in the audience’s behavior. It may help the government formulate better seating policy for seating in Delhi’s spaces, one that would be accommodating to Delhi’s vast cultural classes.
What questions and methods you will use to answer them?	Sub questions and method used to answer them: 1.         What is a bench? 2.         How do people react to a bench in a public space? 3.         How do people’s behaviors change in different public spaces on a bench? (1)        Contextual Review (2)        Observation, Questionaire (3)        Observation, Questionaire
Which main areas of literature do you intend to review and which specific key sources have you already identified?	Key sources: Papers identified (1) Eric Paulos & Elizabeth Goodman, The Familiar stranger: Anxiety, Comfort and Play in Public spaces. Vienna, Austria, 2004. (2) W. H. Whyte, The social life of small urban spaces. Washington D.C.: Conservation Foundation, 1980. (3) Caroline Holland, Andrew Clark, Jeanne Katz & Sheila M. Peace, Social interactions in urban public places. Aylesbury, UK, 2007. (4) Amanda Williams & Paul Dourish, Imagining the city: the cultural dimensions of urban computing. University of California, Irvine, 2006. Books identified (1) Jean Baudrillard, [1986] 1988, America, The Bath Press, Great Britain. (2) Paul Cobley & Litza Jansz, Richard Appignanesi(ed.), 1997, Introduction to Semiotics. Biddles Ltd., Guildford and king’s Lynn, Great Britain.
Data Analysis How do you intend to analyse findings?	(1) Semiotic Analysis (2) Finding repeating patterns in observations across spaces and times of the day, and drawing inferences from them. Noting postures and positions that people draw themselves in on a bench. (3) Cross referencing behavioral patterns seen across different public spaces, then drawing inferences that are dependent on the space around them. Noting patterns in how people draw themselves on benches with different environments drawn behind them.