This article explores the issue of homelessness in larger cities and the inhumane way they are treated and excluded from the rest of society. It specifically explores an incident in London where a large apartment complex installed spikes in one of their alcoves to deter unhorsed people from sleeping there. Legally this was not an …
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The second hostile design is outside Safeway on 18th and Pearl Street under the bus stop. The bus stop provides a perfect space for unhoused people to escape from the elements and the city understood this and made the bench as uncomfortable as possible. The bench is also specifically designed to be as unusable as …
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Hostile design preys on a certain demographic of people and is designed under the guise of “helping the public.” However, these designs ignore the specific people that this design is meant to exclude as part of the public. The first use of hostile design is on the University of Oregon campus outside their new building, …
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This article explores the issue of gender assumptions in the workplace, specifically into the issues of office furniture and how there has been a clear separation between genders in manufacturers when creating office furniture. They go on to describe how executive chairs were designed to fit men and secretary ones were designed for women. This …
This article specifically focuses on how the modern architecture movement caused designers to lose the personal feel and livability of residential spaces. They discuss how modern homes have lost the sense of domesticity that was present in older homes. The lack of ornament and the transparent aspect with the large amounts of glass have taken …
This reading serves as an in-depth look into the meanings behind many of modern architecture’s cornerstone features. Peter Jones explores how the timing in the popularity of modern architecture coincides with the rapid industrialization of a capitalist society and sees the stray away from more classical forms of architecture as a clever way to lure …
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