Discriminatory architecture

Published July 4th, 2008 in Art making a point, Benches, Britain, Built Environment, Design, Design with Intent, Designed to be unpleasant, Designed to injure, Discrimination, Discriminatory Architecture, Do artifacts have politics?, Political design, Satire, Social engineering and Spatial. 6 Comments

In memory of Leonard Ball, who hated fat peopleThe entries in B3ta’s current image challenge, ‘Fat Britain’, include this amusing take on anti- $USER_CLASS benches by monkeon.

(There’s also this, using a slightly different discriminatory architecture technique - don’t click if you’re likely to be offended, etc, by B3ta’s style.)

 

 

 

 


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