Arianna's previous project, tunA, investigated a way to use music in order to connect people at a local scale, through the creation of dynamic, ad-hoc wireless networks. tunA allows users to listen to what other people in physical proximity are listening to, synchronized to enable the feeling of a shared experience. tunA also provides the opportunity for users to share their songs in many situations and while moving around, fostering a sense of awareness of the surrounding physical environment.

Johanna undertook an ethnographic study of the London Underground during and summer of 2006 internship with Intel in a project called aesthetic journeys. This study came to focus on the importance of the aesthetic qualities of urban mobility through a series of photographic documentation, observations and interviews. Three key themes were identified: a platform for art - the idea that the tube is seen as a site for the creation and appreciation of public and personal art, an ecology of objects - the importance of the multiplicity and the interaction of the objects people bring into the underground, and emergent socialty - subtle social patterns and norms emerge in the underground creating unique opportunities for social understanding and interaction.

Why Wait? was the first of a series of workshops which are part of the In-Between-Ness project. It took place at the Bartlett School of Architecture on 27/28 July 2006. Why Wait? explored the experience of urban waiting and considered how it is shaped by cultural practices, values, and attitudes. Designers, architects, artists, computer and social scientists came together to undertake two days of active investigation into how technology could enrich or subvert the experience of waiting.

Betwixt was the second In-Between-Ness workshop, this time taking place at University of California, Irvine on 16 September 2006. The workshop explored the frequently encountered transitional spaces of Orange County - recognizing that we do more than just pass through these spaces, that by acting in and reacting to each of these "non-places" they acquire a character of their own - they become places. Betwixt, centering around the more spatial aspects of in-between-ness, used a day of collaborative fieldwork and design to attempt to discover how technology might help us to recognize and expand the richness of in-between, transitional spaces.