Waiting Game
A Case for Productive Discomfort
Meaghan Pohl (M.Arch II '18)
An imagined geography of waiting – the main spaces of contact between refugees and host community residents. A scale of embedded stress based on time, density, and program guide the level of discomfort that will be tolerated. (Image by Meaghan Pohl
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Predicting your opponent’s next move is a classic form of perspective taking.