You probably know this but check it out
http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/designing/park/park.html
I’m interested in designing tools to facilitate/acknowledge public intimacy, create a context or a catalyst for affection.
Not necessarily sexual intimacy but also that of companionship, moments of connection, through a shared event, memory. E.g., The whale in the Thames.
I see this taking place in a context of greater isolation of people, the reduction of interaction for efficiency, the automation of transactions, the dislocation of conversation to the internet and mobile networks (like this blog!).