Fieldwork Assignment 3
I chose White Marsh Mall’s food court as my location to observe because I am usually at the mall shopping almost every weekend. In the mall’s food court, I found a lot of things I didn’t usually pay attention to, such as the food selection, the shape of the tables, the smell and the people in it. In my observation I notice the whole environment. I don’t normally sit in the food court, so a lot of things stood out to me such as the placement of the lights in this section of the mall. I guess I never really notice the light placement because I’m usually there during the day and natural light enters the mall through the sky light. Something that was absent that I thought would be in the mall’s food court would be the napkin dispensers on the tables. There weren’t any tables with napkin dispensers so if you needed napkins you would have to get it from the food stand where you got your food. I went back to the mall’s food court the next day and the atmosphere really didn’t change. The only thing that changed was the people and that’s due to me going back on a different day and at a different time. Other than the people the food stands, tables and more remained the same.