When the city government wants to install anti-homeless benches, but doesn’t want the backlash from installing anti-homeless benches.
Through an innovative public policy strategy that has virtually eliminated homelessness within its borders
It is a lot better than other places but not literally 0.
Per this report, as of 2021 they had 4396 homeless people. A rate of 0.79 per thousand people in Finland.
Which to be clear is stellar.. but doesn't have much to do with the topic of anti homeless architecture.
This is probably the least dickish way to go about it.
I think your instant assumption about it being done for evil says more about the country you live than it does about Finland, because homelessness doesn't seem to be a big issue in Finland. That's ~5k homeless people in a country with ~5 million people, that's ~0.1% of the population being homeless.
We don't have homeless people on finland. Or we do but quite minimally, the numbers are in couple thousand if I recall right
One person benches
Chair. That's a chair
Is there a hostile architecture community here?
In this case Finland actually takes care of their people and homelessness isn't a problem there. They're just really polite introverts who I might guess prefer sitting alone as opposed to on a bench close to others.
Source - my introverted niece met a Fin, fell in love, moved to Finland and is in absolute heaven. Her husband has visited the States a few times and is always overwhelmed with the casual social interactions with strangers in public.
"one person benches" you mean chairs?
It's clearly a one person bus without wheels
Those are chairs
We have single person benches in my city not because people don't want to sit next to each other, but so homeless people can't sleep on them.
or anti homeless space
That's what I thought. IMHO, hostile architecture is the physical-world equivalent of a lot of the policies that led us to flee Reddit, Twitter, etc.
My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It'd still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.
I can see the appeal of this in some ways, but I hope there are also two-person benches in the same area because when I'm, for example, out with my daughter and we both want to sit down for a minute, it's nice not to have to yell to talk to each other.
Or spread your arms if you are alone
Probably a shit-ton if the seats on the plane are spaced out the same way
Apparently they're being made by Sineu Graff from Denmark and this is somewhere in Helsinki, but I heard that those aren't too common in Finland, so hold your horses, you isolationists ;)
This is intolerant against fat people! It is super uncomfortable when one butt cheek slaps over on each side!
Thanks I came 👍
That one person who still comes up to you and asks if they can sit next to you
Now do saunas
Coffin full of hot rocks
Why does this make me sad? I ironically do actually prefer seating alone but something about this doesn’t feel right
Maybe you prefer to block a second seat, when you sit on a two person bank. ^^
Too much space between them.
where put bag tho?
Sometimes it's really better to have your own bench.
Ain't Finland a paradise?
Not getting sunlight for months in a row tends to make people depressed.
*to make people look depressed
Oh hell no
About €180 from AMS to HEL
but would you have to sit next to someone on the plane
Almost certainly.
Perhaps they are afraid of sitting next to someone from Sweden who eats Surströming.
Gotta back off further than that, yo.
I live alone and work from home so I'm happy :)
They almost nailed it:
I don't see what's notable about your picture
Good bench
Either those are 2 person benches, or y'all got some big asses over there.
2 kids maybe. I'd say 1.5, which is just 1 because you don't have half people.
Ain't no way I'm gonna comfortably share this chair with someone
