To design the City Score for the class, I kept several things in mind:

• There is no standard formulation for scoring a site; each site suggests a different score to the author. It is exactly this extreme site-specificity of the choreography that will make it rich and relevant.
  
  
• The score should, if possible, be designed on the site itself, both to ensure the aforementioned site-specificity in the instructions and also to allow the score to emerge naturally through the author's own deep experiential involvement with the site. First and foremost, the author of the score must react to their own corporeal experience, paying close attention themselves to the interplay between the site and their body and movement.
  
  
• The instructions should be geared toward drawing out reaction to certain elements. They should address some issue, theme, or feeling of the place. The specific score section might address some scale issue at a particular spot, or some key element that seems to be preventing the success of a place. So long as there is an opinion on the part of the author embedded in the instruction, participants may react with or against this opinion.
  
  
• While it may be useful to tell participants to be perceptive, it is more effective to allow them to become deeply engaged through specific activities, especially at the beginning of the score.
  
  
• The score should have a flow- in the beginning, the participant might be asked to notice behaviors in other people on the site first to allow them to key in comfortably to the activity, and then to direct their perceptive attention towards their own reactions and responses. As the score continues, it can shift in tone from directional to more inquisitory-- as the participant becomes more deeply involved in the activity, they may begin to formulate opinions and make connections. At some point in the score (towards/at the end), the questioning should become more general, allowing for synthesis to occur on the terms of the individual participant.