Site analysis questions

• Where is the site? What are its boundaries?
• Why have you chosen it?
• What is the site’s current use?
• Audience: Who goes there? When and how much is the site used? Who is invested? How do they move through and around the site? Do you want to work with or against the site’s everyday uses?
• What are the specific environmental considerations around this site? Is it being managed sustainably? If it’s not being managed, what could the consequences be? (The future of the site). - What is the historical background of the site?
• What are the cultural, social and political associations or resonances surrounding the site? Are there varying perspectives on this? Is the site contested?
• Describe the media ecology of the site.
• What is the site’s mood and emotional resonance? How does it make you feel, what memories or personal associations do you or others have?
• What are the affordances of the site - e.g. what use does it suggest or invite? (such as the AMP tower inviting an oscillation between scales in Bown’s ‘Solstice Lamp’ project). Do you want to work with or invert these affordances?
• Include any documentation of the site you’ve found or created e.g. photos, sketches, maps, interviews, environmental data, historical material (archival images, newspaper stories etc).