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 The ultimate insanity of hostile architecture is exhibited at Christ Church where there is a statue depicting Jesus asleep on a park bench, all the other benches on site have centre armrests.
@BigX Wow. *smh*