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Or, you force socialization on a population that's increasingly turning inward, to the detriment of society in general. It's hubris that on one hand HN can bit
by ethbr0 5y ago
Or, you force socialization on a population that's increasingly turning inward, to the detriment of society in general.
It's hubris that on one hand HN can bitch about how egomaniacal companies like Facebook and Google are, and yet on the other complain about how architecture designed to promote socialization is unfair.
Where do we think those social-deaf, micro-optimizing engineers come from?
- ghaff 5y agoAmong other things, architectural design makes decisions about how space is allocated and how it will probably be used. Of course, architects get things wrong. The dorm I lived in undergraduate did a fair bit well--and also had some common space that was sort of out of the way and was hardly ever used. But one way or another, an architect is going to design things in a way that (they think) optimizes for certain behaviors and use whether that's socializing/collaborating or the maximum privacy/anonymity.
- krisoft 5y ago> Or, you force socialization on a population that's increasingly turning inward, to the detriment of society in general. College kids living in dorms are turning inward? Do you have proof of that or that is just a hunch? > ... yet on the other complain about how architecture designed to promote socialization is unfair. The goal of making architecture promote socialisation is great. The complaint is not about the aim. The complaint is about how it is achieved. Bedrooms with no natural light or natural air circulation suck. We don't build houses like this because it is not a good idea. Saying that your aim was to promote socialisation doesn't change that.