my group, the creative district foundation, we actually sent an anthropologist to walk around this neighbourhood and community, to talk to people without them knowing that it's from us, so that we can get a neutral viewpoint from them, and ask them what they want. and a lot of them felt that this could be a community centre again. they can gather to have their own health checkups, or classes and all those things. so in order to achieve that, we were hoping that it would also become a flexible event space, right? bring different kinds of people to experience the hidden bangkok, as well as meeting people from the neighbourhood. we're in her hood. that's her house right there. here? that's a short commute. so yeah... i think you're beginning to get a sense of the closeness of this community in terms of space and i think in terms of people just walking by, greeting each other, hanging out right here. [mikael colville-andersen] this is a city that is sorely lacking in basic transport options. they've placed a lot of money on a last-century horse: the automobile. there's a couple of really badly desig