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On shortcuts and longcuts - by Henrik Karlsson

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A polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or do things they’d miss otherwise. Johanna and I are talking about this as we walk through the forest on our grounds, where she is scouting the path for a new walking trail. “This hilly area here,” she says, “where it is just tree trunks and no undergrowth. The evening sun comes from…

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