@CamdenCouncil hard at work fitting anti-homeless benches at Whitfield Gardens. Can you really ‘design out’ homelessness by not providing places to sit, lie down, or take shelter? Anti-homeless hostile architecture designers are giving it a go..

But then Camden did commission this famous lump of concrete - the ‘Camden Bench’.
Does this look like a bench? Not really.

Is this a happy gay bench or a miserable anti-homeless bench?

We love it when the council sticks a rainbow on everything in a performative demonstration of inclusivity whilst providing no basic LGBTIQ+ housing or healthcare services. Road crossings are a trend in London

Can we sit here? No.

Shelter here? No.

Can we sit here? No.

This is not a bench.

This is not a bench.

Shelter here? No.

Designers, inventors, humans - when you are being briefed on architecture to help tackle homelessness this is the sketch to start from. As we said on Friday - it doesn’t have to be sunny.

Why are homeless people expected to sleep in converted office blocks and on church hall floors?

Why is there so little purpose build homelessness accommodation?

Does this belong in the same thread as architecture ‘designing out’ homeless people? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/27/housing-crisis-planning-converting-office-blocks-homes-catastrophe-jenrick?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1601199766