The term hostile architecture often refers to designs for public spaces which discourage homeless camping. Ellen Hallström, a student at the Lund University School of Industrial Design in Sweden proposes the opposit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/07/This-Bench-Provides-Emergency-Shelter/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2imDt6y8Qg](Video Link)Isn't that clever? It's a simple mechanism--just fold and unfold. This table is apparently made by Decorações Timbó, a Brazilian furniture and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/23/Picnic-Table-Folds-into-a-Bench/RainCity Housing is a non-profit organization in Vancouver that provides housing for people with mental illnesses and addiction problems. It wants to reach out to homeless people in Vancouver and invite them to seek help...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/11/Bench-Turns-into-a-Homeless-Shelter/The Congo Quares Bench by Atelier Astúa looks like an attractive, but fairly ordinary bench most of the time. But when you want to play chess, you just have to hit the switch and all the pieces will appear beside...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/29/This-Chessboard-Makes-It-Really-Hard-to-Lose-Your-Pieces/(Photo: Athletic Recovery Zone)If you watched the... ...ou may have spotted the athletes sitting on fancy benches while on the sidelines. It was only 49°F, but... ...that the temperature would be even colder. These benches blasted hot or cold air as needed and kept the pl... ...weather was too much some p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/04/Air-Conditioned-Benches-for-Top-Athletes/When a problem comes along, you must whippet. Or sit down for a rest because those hyper dogs will exhaust you. Try this bench which is shaped like them. Radi Designers created it and several others in different colors.-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/18/Whippet-Bench/(Photo: Paul Kuehnel/Daily Record/Sunday News)If you’re feeling left out, how do you get connected? How do you even tell others that you feel isolated? It’s hard enough to deal with this as an adult. But if y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/10/Second-Graders-Cure-for-Playground-Loneliness-The-Buddy-Bench/(Photo: The National Literacy Trust)The National L... ...commissioned artists to paint book-shaped public benches in London. These will go on display in the summer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/21/The-Book-Benches-of-London/Depending on your perspective, Chat Travieso's bench says 'library' in either English, Chinese or Spanish. He calls his little library in New York City, which is open to the public, "Word Play." Travieso hopes it will br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/16/The-Library-Bench/Propane--it's what American philosopher Hank Hill... ...e tanks that gas is stored in and turns them into benches . Some are conventional and still look like propan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/28/Propane-Tank-Benches/
