The overarching goal of the project was the draw attention to the problem, rather than to solve it, but that does not distract from the lack of infrastructure in desired locations being the root of the project. By storyboarding the root of the problem based on my design research, I was able to create my artistic response from this visualization of the problem.

With the idea that this project is temporary, and only placed for a person to cross the street, and then get moved to the next place it is needed, a light and flexible material was needed.  With these requirements in mind, I chose fabric, hot glue, and PVC pipe.  The fabric makes up the black and white stripes, and the hot glue was chosen to adhere the pieces together.  Initially I thought to sew the pieces together, but when pulled or tugged at, I did not want the seams to rip, and I felt like the seam allowance would be smaller with glue as well.  The PVC pipe was added to each end to add some weight and keep the crosswalk on the ground for use.  These pipes also gave something for the crosswalk to be wrapped around when not in use. For a long term solution, the crosswalk would be a more permanent solution.

After completing the build of the crosswalk, I went downtown and began to ask people to use my crosswalk rather than to jaywalk.  This part of the project ended up being the most meaningful since it consisted of human interaction and gave me a fuller understanding of human behavior and the development of desire paths.