When you share something, please do basic research to contribute to *informed* public discussion, rather than flaming hot takes: Fabian Brunsing designed the installation 'Pay & Sit: The Private Bench' as a critique of the privatisation of public goods & anti-homelessness designhttps://twitter.com/kenradio/status/1170100080520704000 …
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2014: 'Anti-homeless' spikes were erected outside a luxury block of flats in Southwark, London. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/09/boris-johnson-calls-removal-anti-homeless-spikes … Other cities also use 'defensive architecture' to punish the homeless, to gatekeep the poor, to deter youth from enjoying public spaces https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/12/anti-homeless-spikes-latest-defensive-urban-architecture …
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So back to the OP 'Is this art installation protesting public use of spaces by the disadvantaged "a good idea"?' Question is highly misguided. It presents critique of capitalism as neutral, removing the original position which was critiquing taken-for-granted norms about place
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