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Another pig ear skateboarding control

Published July 9th, 2006 in Architecture, Architectures of Control, Britain, Built Environment, Civil rights, Control, Deleuze, Design, Design engineering, Design philosophy, Designed to be unpleasant, Designed to injure, Designers, Discriminatory Architecture, Do artifacts have politics?, Dystopia, Embedding code, Engineering, Engineering design, Erosion of liberty, Forcing functions, Foucault, Health and safety, Interaction design, Intrusive technology, Killjoy technology, Liberty, Norms, Oppression, Orwellian, Philosophy of control, Political design, Product design, Public money, Punishment, Restriction, Skateboarding, Social engineering, Spatial, Technology, Technology policy, Technology underclass, Teenagers, Traffic calming, Underclass, Urban, User Psychology, User experience and Worldwide.

Nothing special, just another ‘pig ear’ I saw the other day, fixed to a concrete wall to prevent skateboarders using the edge. A more interesting example and, in a similar vein, the Anti-Sit Archives.

7 Responses to “Another pig ear skateboarding control”

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1 Anthony
Dec 27th, 2006 at 7:37 pm

In my town, we went out one night, and chipped over 150 of these off ledges and redid any ledges that we broke with cement that actually looked nicer than before, so we could skate them. The will to skate with allways outwit and outperform the will of those that want to stop us.
2 George
Dec 31st, 2006 at 3:04 am

You broke these, and then replaced them with cement that looked ‘nicer than before?’…are you sure? I think that would be pretty difficult. Are you sure you don’t mean, “My vandal college friends and I went out drunk, broke some of these things off kerbs, causing loads of damage in the process. Then to top it all off we got some cement from Gav’s Dad’s garage and smudged it all over them, it was well reckless!”.

“The will to skate will allways (sic) outwit”, but it seems your courageous, traditional, valiant game is being tragically scuppered by small bits of metal heinously appearing in surfaces everywhere, so why don’t you go and skate up the road outside your house rather than solid marble kerb paving?
3 SKATER
Jun 20th, 2007 at 12:13 am

listen geaorge.fuck you.
4 Another skater
Aug 24th, 2007 at 4:53 am

Skate the street?! You obviously are ignorant of what skateboarding actually is, and skate stoppers bah! at least Skater was nice enough to re cement the area. If your purposely gonna take time out of your life to mess with skaters we’ll mess back learn that now and your life will be easier.
5 skater
Jan 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

Skate and destory!!!!!!!
6 a skater girl.
Apr 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

george ur gay skating is more than skating the streets u gota find stuff to skate thats wat its about and having fun and bein serious about it screw what people do to try to stop us whether it be posting signs or pig ears on curbs well always work around it and they dont do nothin so shut the hel up
7 Anonymous
Jun 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am

why would people do this
skateboarding is harmful in the right hands and if people are good enough to be grinding ledges then it should be fine

so why put these in certain places

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