Waiting is a design question

A fictional invitation to a student design exhibition. Original practice text.

You have opinions about the bus shelter. You probably formed one this morning, somewhere between the dripping roof and the timetable you could not read. Next Saturday, bring that opinion indoors and see what local students have done with the same question: what should waiting feel like?

Our exhibition begins at street level, with sketches made while people actually waited. Not a row of shiny models pretending that rain falls politely straight down. You will see where bags collect, where a wheelchair needs space to turn, and which direction the wind takes when the bus is late.

Then the models open up. Lift a roof section. Move a seat. Compare a design that looks elegant from across the road with one that gives you somewhere dry to put your shopping. The students have left their rejected versions beside the final ones, because a good idea is often easier to understand when you can see what it had to overcome.

This is not a vote to choose a shelter the council has already promised to build. It is a chance to discuss priorities before somebody treats a drawing as a finished answer. Leave a comment, mark a feature that matters, or tell a student what their model has missed.

Entry is free at the workshop gallery, from ten until four. Come for the models; stay for the argument. The next time you wait for a bus, you may find yourself looking at more than the clock.

How does the writer persuade readers to visit the bus-shelter design exhibition? Support your response with evidence from the text.