Thoughtless Acts

This picture captures the thoughtless act whereby someone has created a highly visible lost-and-found out of an overhead pipe in the MIMS lounge. The affordances of this particular pipe make the lost headphones easily visible to the many students that traffic the area despite their small size.

The image is of me opening a box I just received. Without thinking I grabbed my keys and cut the tape. 

This image was taken during the i203 class. I found most of us put our bags on the floor even though some of the chairs had a space for bags below the seat. You can see a coffee cup on the floor, too. I think this is not only because there is limited spaces for a bag with a chair, but because putting things on the floor allows people easy to access the bag and pick up things from the bag.

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Using existing push pins on the wall to hang glasses right at the bend of the sunglasses where it would normally rest on your nose.

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Using a chair (which obviously is just used for sitting on) to use as an assistant mini-table for a bag.

Here are 2 examples of thoughtless acts occurred in my home:

#1 is a the handle of the exercising bike being used as hangers when the bike is idle. 

#2 is a cabinet at my bathroom. While it was designed to store things inside of it, since the top of the cabinet is flat and wide, why not utilize it for more storage? It provides a space to put larger stuffs that are not often needed.

I personally tend to utilize the floor as ultimate storage for everything, but my husband hates this. He has to store everything off the ground. Thus, as a compromise, he introduce me/installed a lot of hangers everywhere. I understood when I got a hanger on the wall against the kitchen sink. There are a lot of utensils or tools with hole for hanging. However, when I saw that my husband hung his tennis racket on the over-the-door hanger I thought it is a clever way of storing racket.

When I am working at my desk I frequently have a pencil, but my notebook is in my bag.  If I come up with an idea, my usual reaction is just to scribble it on my desk.  Over time, this begins to make me look a little crazy so I erase it (freeing up space too).  It would be kind of cool if that was an expected use of a desk, digitally or otherwise.

My example of a thoughtless act is how I use two binder clips as my headphone stand. Binder clips are typically used to hold stacks of paper together, but when attached to the side of a desk, they make for great headphone holders (and also good wire cable holders too!)

1. In the first image, the structural support for the mirror (originally intended to support the mirror) is being used to hang the pants. The hanger-like physical affordance of the support makes it an easy place for someone to hang their clothes in the absence of a wall hook intended for that purpose.

1)  A student in a cafe uses two hardcover books, propped up on the raised abutment at the end of the counter where he's eating, to keep a stiff, old paperback from closing while he reads it.  Presumably the abutment was designed to keep cafe customers from accidentally pushing their food off the counter's back edge onto the floor (the counter faces a window, and there's a small gap between the window and the counter's edge), but it is the perfect height to provide leverage for this student's improvised paperweight.  As a result, the student can keep his h