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https://hostiledesign.org/ --> Design products made specifically to exclude, harm or otherwise hinder the freedom of a human being. | https://hostiledesign.org/ --> Design products made specifically to exclude, harm or otherwise hinder the freedom of a human being. | ||
====the power of a bench==== | |||
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/magazine/park-benches.html THE POWER OF A BENCH: | |||
"A park bench allows for a sense of solitude and community at the same time, a simultaneity that’s crucial to life in a great city. Maybe that’s the greatest power of the park bench: its capacity to retain and encourage the art of observation. A good bench catches us in our quietest, most vulnerable moments, when we may be open to imagining new narratives and revisiting old ones. Our masks are taken off, hung from the bench’s wrought iron. On other nearby benches, babies are being burped. Glances exchanged. Sandwiches eaten. Newspapers perused." --> If a park bench is not being removed, the backup plan is often to make it uncomfortable. “Hostile architecture” — an urban design strategy intended to impede “antisocial” behavior — is proliferating all over the world. | |||
---> rejection of social behaviour/of people/of | |||
Revision as of 20:26, 1 December 2021
rejection letters
architectural rejection
dark design // hostile architecture
what is dark design?
dark design is the deliberate shaping and design of urban spaces and artefacts with the intention of excluding particular activities and vulnerable social groups: urban spaces rejecting soft bodies Hostile architecture is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour.
--> The complex relationship between laws prohibiting people to gather and make shelter is together with the concrete artefacts of dark design working to create an atmosphere of rejection.
society rejects drug-addicted/homeless/etc../pigeouns therefore how people would design their own? how an homeless would make his own house in the city? this is vernacular patras afghan self settled camp/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town
+ blind people/ disabled people/
"Proponents say this type of urban design is necessary to help maintain order, ensure safety and curb unwanted behavior such as loitering, sleeping or skateboarding."
https://hostiledesign.org/ --> Design products made specifically to exclude, harm or otherwise hinder the freedom of a human being.
the power of a bench
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/magazine/park-benches.html THE POWER OF A BENCH: "A park bench allows for a sense of solitude and community at the same time, a simultaneity that’s crucial to life in a great city. Maybe that’s the greatest power of the park bench: its capacity to retain and encourage the art of observation. A good bench catches us in our quietest, most vulnerable moments, when we may be open to imagining new narratives and revisiting old ones. Our masks are taken off, hung from the bench’s wrought iron. On other nearby benches, babies are being burped. Glances exchanged. Sandwiches eaten. Newspapers perused." --> If a park bench is not being removed, the backup plan is often to make it uncomfortable. “Hostile architecture” — an urban design strategy intended to impede “antisocial” behavior — is proliferating all over the world. ---> rejection of social behaviour/of people/of