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Engineering
Disaffordances and engineering obedience
‘Design Must Relinquish Control’
The Tell-Tale Part
Inconvenience: deliberate or accidental?
Ticket off
Using trees to encourage safer driving
Review: Made to Break by Giles Slade
‘Anti-Homeless’ benches in Tokyo
Speed control designed to help the user
Shaping behaviour at the Design Council
Is there a better term than “architectures of control”?
Deliberately reducing visibility at road junctions
Designed to control rather than enable
Uninnovate – engineering products to do less
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control
Some interesting aspects of built-in obsolescence
Spiked: When did ‘hanging around’ become a social problem?
The illusion of control
‘Carmakers must tell buyers about black boxes’
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