Food Court Observation Paper

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As part of my project “Be still” in my Design Research class where I have to sit or stand still for a short amount of time and later write about what I observed, I decided to go to the food court area of Quail Springs Mall in Oklahoma City on a Sunday afternoon. As it was Sunday afternoon, I could see lots of people in the food court. The advantage of that place was that the area was full of people so it would provide me the good opportunity to observe the atmosphere and people. At the start, I felt very comfortable doing it. I was standing behind a table. But as the time passed, I started becoming uncomfortable as people started noticing me and became more self-observant. While I was there I noticed people doing the regular stuffs like waiting

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