Anti-teenager sound weapon: more comments :: Architectures of Control

Anti-teenager sound weapon: more comments

Published February 17th, 2006 in Architectures of Control, Built Environment, Discriminatory Architecture, External Control and Philosophy of control.

This post from last year has been getting a lot of hits over the last few days due to more media coverage of the story - come on & join in the comment debate:
Anti-teenager sound weapon in Wales

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Making the user more efficient: Design for Sustainable Behaviour
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Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour. The same intentions are also evident in the design of many systems and environments.

This site aims—with readers’ input—to examine and analyse the ideas and techniques of these architectures of control in design, through examples and anecdotes, and by keeping up-to-date with relevant developments... More