"When we design, build, manage, occupy or even just pass through a place, we change it. Whether we are conscious of it or not, these changes can embellish, adorn, colour, tint or taint that place in the eyes of the people who share it. These perceptions influence how appealing those people will find particular behaviours.
These influences might be seen as biases that are figuratively and sometimes literally set in stone. They are the result of design decisions that effectively dedicate spaces to a particular activity (or activities) and deter other activities. The illustrations below show examples of this.
These designed characteristics play an important role in framing the range of experiences that people enjoy, endure or miss out on. Over time this affects the trajectory of their lives, which has significant implications for human well-being.
If we consider the biases as messages we receive from our surroundings, we need to ask: are these messages biased towards helping or hindering us? Do they invite us to meet our needs? That is the fundamental precondition to thriving and fulfilling our potential".
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-compassionate-city-built-in-biases.html
Sunday 29 April 2018
"When we design, build, manage, occupy or even just pass through a place, we change it. Whether we are conscious of it or not, these changes can embellish, adorn, colour, tint or taint that place in the eyes of the people who share it. These perceptions influence how appealing those people will find particular behaviours.
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Increasingly, I am seeing that design, while important, is not the true measure of a city’s compassion. In U.S. communities large and small, we have implemented designs to take us to happiness and civic humanity. Yet, while they make some districts look better, ever larger groups of those without job skills or access to preventative medicine populate these asking for money or cigarettes. We designed an economy and social policy around corporations’ needs to dispose of people they once invested in, and that’s where our civic compassion failed.
ReplyDeleteI would consider this to be successful when social policy values people's non monetary contributions as much as the size of their bank account.
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