35 Heartbreaking And Annoying Examples Of "Hostile Designs" Against Humanity

These design elements are intended to harm, restrict, or exclude people from exercising their freedom.

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• August 26, 2022

What do you notice about the architecture in your favorite city when you stroll around? What do you think about some of the well-known landmarks?

What are your thoughts about the lovely vegetation amidst the enormous skyscrapers? Or perhaps the engaging and welcoming public areas?

These components undoubtedly catch our attention, but there are other factors as well. Here we can see these elements of the urban environment, like bars on benches and spikes on window sills, which are also there to regulate how the spaces are used.

We seldom ever pay attention to the myriad factors that affect how we feel in our environment. However, the eye-opening Twitter account named "Hostile Design" reveals that such aggressive actions are regrettably more widespread than you may imagine.

The creator of the page compiles images that portray the harsh reality of how public spaces target the homeless while doing little to no help for the general public. The idea of hostile design, sometimes known as defensive design, has been the subject of a complicated and contentious debate for a while now, as users of these public spaces and activists have begun to record the instances they have encountered.

Take a look at the gallery of images we assembled from the account if you're not clear on what we mean. Nevertheless, I should warn you that once you learn about it, you will start to notice it everywhere.

1. Lack of compassion isn't the answer

2. Uncomfortable people will not linger and talk with their friends

3. The irony

4. Bravery at its peak

5. Why they took away the benches...

6. Nobody can even sit here. Ugly overkill

7. Why build it if you want no one to sit on it

8. Installation of large rocks

9. Is this a challenge?

10. Isn't this supposed to be a rail?

11. Does this reminds you of a jar opener or what?

12. This makes it impossible to just plain walk

13. These designs are also really awful for the elderly and disabled

14. You pay, you get a pass

15. Then why make the bench that way?

16. That is just too hostile

17. Guess they're trying to stop something

18. Does this really look better than barbed wire?

19. Why would anyone do this?

20. Come see this leaning bus stop bench

21. There's still lots of room

22. Looks like she could give Bruce Banner a run for his money

23. Hideous indeed

24. This is just hideous

25. A cat would sleep on it

26. Spikes are tough to see in this one... zoom on in

27. Which is more hostile here, the clown or the multi-national corporation?

28. Check out these huge bricks

29. I guess sitting on a semi-temporary barrier along a roadside is not very safe

30. These are clearly to help get up from a particularly low bench

31. It looks too narrow to lay down any how

32. You sit in the bottom of a curve and it deters a stranger from sitting right next to you

35. Hmm

These design elements are intended to harm, restrict, or exclude people from exercising their freedom. Whether they target homeless people, skateboarders, or loitering teenagers, they all have the same purpose: to exclude a particular segment of the community from a public area.

What are your thoughts about these hostile designs? Drop your thoughts below and share this post as well.

Maryjane