Lyria / Decision OS by Atrianna
Understand what a city makes possible for the people in it.
People, cities and quality of life
Lyria helps you explore how people experience spaces, services and everyday life. It brings computational sociology, population models and the study of everyday experience together to understand how personal characteristics, social conditions and environments interact across urban and peri-urban settings.
From a curb on the way to school to the temperature inside a bus, the details of a place can shape access, comfort, interaction and opportunity.
Three connected scales of experience.
The person
Explore needs, psychological and demographic characteristics, beliefs, identities, mental states and physical circumstances relevant to the experience.
The everyday situation
Understand the task, companions, time, resources, surroundings and conditions that shape what someone can do.
The wider setting
Examine services, spatial systems, social norms, macro forces and changing conditions that affect experiences across a city and over time.
How Lyria reveals lived experience in places and systems
Illustrative exampleFollow a public transport journey. Then reveal what it is like for the people making it.
Walk
What happens: Walking to the stop
Reveal the lived experience to see what this moment is like.
So what
Planners see where the journey breaks down for different travellers and which redesigns would matter most, before investing.
Look at the journey, not only the map.
A journey to school, seen through its conditions.
Which conditions should a planner examine before choosing an intervention?
Context
- A child travelling with a caregiver
- A crossing on the route
- Traffic and visibility that need observation
- Question
- Can people cross with sufficient time, visibility and confidence in this situation?
- Interpretation
- Crossing conditions may constrain the journey. The relevant difficulty must be established locally, rather than inferred from age alone.
- Candidate action
- Examine crossing design and timing with the people who use the route.
- Validate
- Observe crossings and gather accounts across relevant times and conditions before prioritizing a change.
Compare who may benefit, what may change and what still needs local evidence.
What could work better, for whom, and under which conditions?
Explore how a transport service, public space, neighborhood or everyday journey could work better for the people who use it. Examine who benefits, who faces friction and how the experience changes across places, times and circumstances.
Keep context attached to the proposed next move.
An experience map or intervention comparison can connect a possible change to the circumstances it is intended to address. Measures should fit the question. A proposed intervention is not evidence that an impact has already occurred.
Local knowledge belongs in the work.
Use Lyria directly, or work with Atrianna on a complete study or project. For organization-specific use, connect relevant local knowledge and data within an agreed scope.
Build the complete project with Atrianna.
Bring the city, place, service or experience you need to understand.
Explore Lyria through an everyday decision.
Tell us which people, cities or services your work concerns.