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Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good start
John Bird

Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good start

Is Norwich City Council’s move to end hostile architecture a sign of things to come?

Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: ‘It’s like battery farming’
Art

Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: ‘It’s like battery farming’

The artist is calling for a reset in arts education and the way the internet is used with his new book

Shocking art project spotlights ‘insidious’ anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture
Homelessness

Shocking art project spotlights ‘insidious’ anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture

Artist Stuart Semple covered spikes designed to stop people sleeping on the street with photos of rough sleepers in a shocking campaign to uncover ‘insidious’ designs

Council’s £200,000 plan to block off arches used by rough sleepers slammed as ‘tarting up’ city
Homelessness

Council’s £200,000 plan to block off arches used by rough sleepers slammed as ‘tarting up’ city

How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class
Urban design

How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class

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5 ways anti-homeless architecture is used to exclude people from public spaces
Homelessness

5 ways anti-homeless architecture is used to exclude people from public spaces