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I see an organised and structured space. There are cues that direct you to different parts of the room. First step is to sanitise your hands, then you order using a screen, once your receipt it printed out you wait infront of the open kitchen and counter for your food to be ready. There's another screen that lists all the numbers of the receipts, you must wait till yours is called. It feels like you have become part of an intricate and carefully calculated machine. I went at a quiet time so I didn't have to wait long to be called, so I can relax knowing my order won't take long at all.

Your own position in the space:
– What do you see?
– How do you move?
– How does your body feel?

Other people:
– Who is involved?
– Who are the different groups?
– How do they interact?
– What characteristics do they have?
– What are their body movement and orientation?
– How are they spatially organised?

There are staff, about 4 behind the counter: 3 women preparing the food/serving, and one man seemingly the manager, calling orders and sometimes serving.The other customers seem to be teens, young adults and a couple of middle aged men. The teens are grouped all together, talking, laughing, coming and going. They seem comfortable there, rowdy almost.

Setting:
– What defines the space ?
– Which architecture and objects are involved?
– What are the details, such as colour codes, materials, temperature, smells etc..?
– For who the space is it designed?
– How does the design of the space privileges and/or excludes certain social relations?

The space is sectioned off, there's a open walkway to the front counter then two separate dining places on each side. Wall dividers break up the space, different types of chairs give you the options to sit according to your company. So for example i sat at a both with a table, a lone man sat on a stool and the group of kids took over the single tables.

The colours are warm and cosy, yellows, reds, greens, browns. The wall to the right is made up of glass so you can watch the busy street as you eat. The lights are super bright and the music is in your face, so even though its cosy enough to stay to eat, its not comfortable enough to stay for hours and hours

Rules:
– What are the rules of the places and how are they prescribed?
– Are they visible or invisible?– How is the space socially negotiated?
– What are the norms, values and codes that underpin the forms of sociality happening in the space?
– How do notions of space, place, and scale interplay in this context with issues of race, gender, and class?

Like other places, corona rules were outlined, ie keeping distance and sanitising hands etc. But those rules weren't enforced, it seemed to be a very relaxed and easy going environment. At least for me, I felt like i could fit in with the other people there. I would say the humble and small environment made it a comfortable place for working class people. Also most of the customers and staff were poc, speaking arabic and african languages.

these pie charts will be a nice visual way to show the data from the interviews, we interviewed almost 80 people so we have a lot of data to display