Comments on: ‘Anti-Homeless’ benches in Tokyo

By: A Petty Blog » Deliberately creating worry

A Petty Blog » Deliberately creating worry — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:29:30 +0000

[...] interesting colossal time-sink. I bookmarked the site years ago because of an article about park benches designed primarily to keep vagrants from sleeping on them. This is even creepier. Design with Intent | Deliberately creating worry One of the cafés in an [...]

By: Igor Kolar

Igor Kolar — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:23:18 +0000

This. Is. Insane. Design is supposed to help people …

By: Deliberately creating worry at fulminate // Architectures of Control

Deliberately creating worry at fulminate // Architectures of Control — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:57:12 +0000

[...] Creating worry in the customers’ minds would certainly seem to be effective – perhaps more effective than simply deliberately uncomfortable seating, which we’ve come across a number of times before. But is it really a sensible tactic? Won’t those customers, if they use the airport again, consciously avoid “that café where we nearly missed out flight last time because they turned the monitors off”? Has it occurred to the café operators that, perhaps, their customers value sitting down to ‘nurse’ their coffees as part of the coffee-drinking experience? [...]

By: Anti-user seating in Oxford at fulminate // Architectures of Control

Anti-user seating in Oxford at fulminate // Architectures of Control — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:12:35 +0000

[...] Japan may have some of the most explicitly user-unfriendly public benches we’ve come across so far, but there’s also something rather disturbing about the sheer blandness of the bench implementations shown above. Their starkness embodies the thinking behind the design: all possible interaction methods to be reduced down to one sole, pre-defined utility function, with the user not permitted to do anything outside that intentionally myopic definition. [...]

By: Anti-terrorist Architecture « Gems Sty

Anti-terrorist Architecture « Gems Sty — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:19:07 +0000

[...] Seems like the owners of the Caltrans District 7 building cares a lot about its occupants – littering the plaza with sculptures and benches – but their real purpose is to deter any large vehicles that may be carrying explosives into the building. Apart from terrorists, building and urban space planners are also increasingly targeting other “threats” like skateboarders and the homeless. [...]

By: Architectures of Control in Design » Anti-perch spikes

Architectures of Control in Design » Anti-perch spikes — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:38 +0000

[...] More anti-sit devices and anti-homeless benches. Please share this!These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Sachin

Sachin — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:22:49 +0000

Last time I had to take the plane at Heathrow airport I came across such an invention. My plane left London really early and I decided to spend the night at the airport. What they did there for you not to sleep on the 4 seater benches in the airport is just taking out the third seat. Nobody can lie down on those benches now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:02:11 +0000

Ever seen those slicers for cheese? A single wire on a handle connected to a board?

I’m looking at the ’suicide net’ and thought ‘Cheese Slicer’.

It’d work better if there were fewer strands.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:44:40 +0000

Believe me or not, but I've been willing to send you a picture of these for a while now - it's just that I always forget to photograph them when I pass there. Oh well... Btw, equally intriguing (and a tad disturbing) are the numerous anti-suicide measures you find in buildings here. E.g. nets, double doors, etc.

By: don’t look like shit » Blog Archive » Architektur der Kontrolle

don’t look like shit » Blog Archive » Architektur der Kontrolle — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:00:58 +0000

[...] Das Funktionsprinzip, das Architektur und Design ermöglicht, Macht auf uns auszuüben, ist das der passiven Kontrolle: Wir sind eingeschränkt in unserer Bewegungsfreiheit, können und sollen uns nur dort aufhalten, wo es uns gnädigst gestattet wird. Der Panoptismus der modernen Kontrollgesellschaft unterstützt diesen Prozess. Jetzt kann man Foucault lesen oder das Blog von Dan Lockton. Dort findet man Artikel zum Thema, z.B. über Bänke, die verhindern sollen, dass sich ein Obdachloser auf ihnen schlafen legt. File under: Die Welt mit anderen Augen sehen. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:46:36 +0000

That’s a great photo, thanks John!

By: john trenouth

john trenouth — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:23:28 +0000

sorry, forgot link

http://www.niblettes.com/chinese_lounge.jpg

By: john trenouth

john trenouth — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:23:02 +0000

The will to loiter exceeds design cleverness.