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This makes me very angry.

These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.

The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.

A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.

Be a designer, not a decorator.

@aral , there are worst examples, much worse

The "goodness" of capitalism

Aral Balkan

@Catweazle Please tell me that’s from an art-house sci-fi dystopia film of some sort. These aren’t actually deployed somewhere on our planet are they?

@stooovie

@aral I've always heard this was a design critique specifically directed at hostile architecture but now I feel more unsure.

@Catweazle @stooovie

@axbom Thank you. There is hope for the world yet :)

@stooovie @Catweazle

@aral @axbom @stooovie , anyway, anti homeless spikes and anti homeless benches still exist,

@Catweazle @aral @axbom yes, those are everywhere, but the spikes with the coin slot seemed too evil and unreal

@stooovie @aral @axbom , it's philosophy is present, as you can see in hostile architecture, also that in Madrid, f.Ex. the poor are punished with fines if they are caught looking for food in the garbage or supermarket containers.
Human rights only for those who can pay it. Capitalism

@aral @stooovie , it's real, not a ilm. There are a lot of other Examples from all arround the "civilized" world. Search "anti-homeless spikes" or "hostile architecture" in the web.