#Hostile Architecture

[kropotkindersurprise]

Comrade Corvid dismantles the tools of oppression used against his fellow birds.

[rabbitrah]

"Le repos du fakir" (2003), Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté

[inforapennyinforapunned]

Happy pride everyone!

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

I didn’t want to disrupt the post about hostile architecture I saw because it’s true that the main target is homeless people but I did want to mention that this architecture also hurts people who aren’t skinny. I want to preface this all by saying I am in no way trying to minimize how this impacts people experiencing homelessness I am just trying to add on to the discussion of how these are bad.

You think that someone who can’t fit into those weird little yellow seats is going to feel comfortable? No. It will only make them feel bad or excluded.

Look at this shit. It’s not good or nice.

It only adds to the ways fat people are made feel unwelcome and though we already needed to tear this shit down because it makes life a million times worse for people experiencing homelessness and so this isn’t saying this is why you should tear it down. It is saying that our society is fatphobic and that sucks.

[luetta]

[librarychair]

We need comfortable, ubiquitous, durable public seating. Everywhere. Yes you can lie down and sleep on it. Friendly architecture.

[gen-z-superheroes]

(Source) Charitable Organization "Food not Bombs" getting ticketed for feeding the Homeless outside of a public library.

Good news is that so far (as of December 21st 2023) all of their cases have either been dismissed or won in court! (source)

The tickets are being written under the Feeding Ordinance passed in 2012 under Mayor Anise Parker (source) Residents of Houston feel free to write to the mayor's office and tell them to get rid of the Feeding Ordinance!

Help them pay the tickets

Donate to the Houston Peace & Justice Center

[whereserpentswalk]

Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...

[prokopetz]

Playing one of those Backrooms-inspired liminal horror games and my first sign that I've passed into some unnatural realm is that there's way too much accessible public seating.

[kelly-danger]

People dont talk enough about how skaters will see hostile architecture and be like 'fuck it *breaks that shit*'. Theres something radical about seeing skate stoppers on a ledge and saying "ok time to get the hammer and chisel". Theres plenty of empty ledges still, sure. But its about the principal of the thing. Imagine if we all saw anti homeless architecture and said 'fuck it *breaks that shit*'

[theconcealedweapon]

This is bullshit.

Wheelchair users are not looking for a place to sit. There's no reason why a wheelchair user would have to specifically sit in the middle of a bench.

This is anti-homeless hostile architecture attempting to disguise itself as progressive.

[ofdinosanddais1]

Hostile architecture is absolute dog shit and does nothing to help anyone. If governments don't want homeless people sleeping on the street in public then too fucking bad. Your punishment for a shit system is having to see people at their lowest fucking point for all to see even if it makes you look bad which doesn't take much at all.

Letting people sleep on the streets is the fucking least you can do if you're not going to fix the societal problems that led to this in the first place. Make homeless shelters less oppressive, provide more access to welfare, raise the minimum wage, fix the skyrocketing rent, but fuck right off if your "solution" is to incorporate ugly ass anti-homeless architecture.

[callese]

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

I hate hostile architecture! Inspired by seeing it everywhere in the city :[

🎶Cities hate the homeless! For existing!🎵

[elreservado]

Homeless people are people too!

[roomwithavoid]

hostile architecture is awful, and we all kind of know it’s awful, obviously for the way it punishes homeless people for daring to want a place to sleep, but i think we don’t acknowledge enough that it is hostile to EVERYONE.

i see classist assholes who think homeless people deserve to suffer excusing hostile architecture, but like, even if you don’t care about homeless people (which does make you a horrible shitlord btw) hostile architecture negatively impacts everyone, since everyone requires a rest sometimes. but it especially impacts fat people and disabled people. disabled people often require rest more often, and the ability to sit comfortably for a moment could be the determining factor of whether or not a disabled person is able to get through their day. it impacts fat people in that, for hostile architecture that takes the forms of rails between seats on benches, you are necessarily putting a maximum width on that bench.

i bring this up because, as a fat disabled person, i am not comfortable traveling very far without bringing my own seat, since i require a rest very frequently, but because i am fat, i do not fit on a lot of these seats. a rest is not going to help me if i am in severe pain from the seat. and it drives me absolutely mad that in the city’s pursuit of maximizing suffering for its most vulnerable population, it has also increased the suffering even for the people they try to convince it’s for the “benefit” of