Hostile Architecture or Smart Design?


For your assigned slide, please answer the following questions:
  1. What is the explicit/stated purpose of the featured piece(s)?
  2. What specific characteristics or features make this an example of hostile architecture?
  3. Who or what does this apply to or target? How do you know?
For more examples, here is an article from the New York Times about this development in New York City.

One man who beat hostile architecture:

#Ferguson

The summer of 2020 is now being referred to as "a moment of racial reckoning". What have we as a country learned from the murder of George Floyd? Where did the #blacklivesmatter movement originate? An answer might be found in the tragic story of Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO. We will watch the following film in conjunction with a lesson on policing and media literacy: