cell on Nostr: lain engineering human behavior reminds me of how they designed public housing here ...
lain (nprofile…hmru) engineering human behavior reminds me of how they designed public housing here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_deck
> In their book chapter The Social Significance of Public Spaces in Public Housing Estates, Ooi and Tan noted that the space is a "radical embrace of functional indeterminacy," meaning that the void deck is intentionally designed to have no fixed or predetermined purpose.[2] Hence, Ooi and Tan described the institution of void decks as a 'gamble' because of this uncertainty of its usage.[2] In the book chapter "Void Deck" in Public Space in Urban Asia by William S. W. Lim, Cairns, et. al. dedicated one section called "The Void Deck Gamble", stating that the void deck was meant to be an open space with no particular function, but the hope was for it to promote "community and identity formation" as mentioned explicitly in government documents.
conversely, a university here had its housing deliberately designed to deter gatherings because it used to be a communist hotspot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_deck
> In their book chapter The Social Significance of Public Spaces in Public Housing Estates, Ooi and Tan noted that the space is a "radical embrace of functional indeterminacy," meaning that the void deck is intentionally designed to have no fixed or predetermined purpose.[2] Hence, Ooi and Tan described the institution of void decks as a 'gamble' because of this uncertainty of its usage.[2] In the book chapter "Void Deck" in Public Space in Urban Asia by William S. W. Lim, Cairns, et. al. dedicated one section called "The Void Deck Gamble", stating that the void deck was meant to be an open space with no particular function, but the hope was for it to promote "community and identity formation" as mentioned explicitly in government documents.
conversely, a university here had its housing deliberately designed to deter gatherings because it used to be a communist hotspot