Benches with curved seats “designed” to look like books sit on the sidewalk by a green space outside an apartment block.

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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 17:51:38 JST Aral Balkan

   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.