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•examples of hostility toward the houseless, disabled, and general public• personal: bsky.app/profile/wapplehouse.bsky.s…

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Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

I’m having trouble wrapping my head around this. Conceptually I understand it but visually… Houston: 3,600 per square mile Paris: 52,000 per square mile

A map of Houston, Texas vs the outline of Paris. Both areas have the same population.

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Montpelier, France

An enclave along a sidewalk with rows of small studs fixed to the ground

A small ledge along a window sill with metal triangles running along the surface

A bench with two handles fixed to the seat

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Dortmund, Germany

Two “benches” made of unpainted steel tubes with no actual seat on one and no back or seat on the other

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

A skateboarder using their bird to sit atop a strip of metal spikes on a marble wall

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

Dottie, the new design is terrible. Hope this helps.

Our bus shelters are getting a new look. Keep an eye out as we work to deploy these new amenities in the coming months. Shelters help keep you safe, protect you from the elements and give you a place to sit. #tbt

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

Plaza de armas, Chile

Two metal bars attached to a wall serving as a “leaning bench”

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

Oh boy, Boston Globe have I got some news for you about “seats intended as art”

The Boston Globe
@BostonGlobe
With long Red Line waits, seats intended as art at Downtown Crossing can be a pain in the rear

Image of uncomfortable stone seats at train station

bostonglobe.com
With long Red Line waits, seats intended as art at Downtown Crossing can be a pain in t..

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

Stalingrad Station, Paris Metro

A blue tiled bench in a metro station with additional panels raised and tilted to make it uncomfortable

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

My favorite version of the trend in bench advertisements involving people laying down on benches where it isn’t possible to lay down and by favorite I mean most hated

A sidewalk bench with dividers so you can’t lay down with an ad for a church or outreach that says “No one should have to sleep here”

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

a wheelchair ramp at an entrance to a park that ends at a high curb before dropping off

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Bogotá, Colombia

A row of spikes along a brick window sill

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 19/06/2023

"El Viajero" station in Pereira, Colombia

A neon green bench on a sidewalk in front of a yellow bus. The center portion of the bench is lower than the ends.

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 08/06/2023

Paris, France “It was a normal bench before”

Two bench seats facing opposite directions. Looks as if a full size bench was cut in half.

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 06/06/2023

Madrid Metro System

Two steel tubes of differing heights meant to be benches

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

Bogor Station, West Java, Indonesia

Low triangular fence around a gardened area

Low triangular fencing around a light pole

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 29/05/2023

Tweet that reads: Rich Mintz @richmintz
lol imagine designing an enormous public destination so that it's illegal and dangerous to walk to

Sign in the tweet: Hotel Guests attending events at
MetLife Stadium cannot walk to the stadium and cannot walk back to the hotel from the stadium.
It is illegal and dangerous
to walk on the roadways surrounding the stadium.
Please make the proper transportation arrangements.
Thank you.

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

Entrance to a playground in Massy, France

Green gate entrance to a playground with a narrow, zigzag opening

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 24/05/2023

San Diego, California

A wooden bench made of slats that elevates in the center for no reason making the bench mostly unusable

Same bench different angle

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

Tukwila train station in Tukwila, Washington

A row of black inclined “leaning benches” at a train station in a yellow hallway with large windows

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 22/05/2023

Toulouse, France

Two rows of triangle angled metal along sidewalk and building side

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

tilted seats designed to be uncomfortable while eating

Lunch table seats leaned forward to cause discomfort in the legs to make you want to leave quicker

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

A twitter exchange wherein the subway authority admits it removed benches to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

hostile benches disguised as “wheelchair accessible”, Germany

An illustration of a man using a wheelchair, positioned in a gap between two ends of a single bench

Hostile Design @hostiledesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

Philly Septa Line

A metal bench attached to a wall in a train station made from metal grating that curves into itself midway like a car has smashed into it