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 Where is this ? I seem to remember a post of a bench in Canada that has a canopy over the top, ideal for homeless but also ideal for anyone else trying get out of the rain.
Just because one is lying on a bench does not make them homeless, may be more comfortable, or relaxing, Or at night lie on a bench and watch the stars.
