Engineered spaces aka Choice architecture.

The application of fluency or disfluency for physical actions and spaces. Designing spaces to deliberately make some actions easier and others harder. A deliberate bounding of phenomenological possibilities, a shaping of agency, by shaping the environment.

E.g.: Casinos deliberately don’t have windows or clocks so that you don’t notice how long you’ve been there.


What they want to do to you vs What I want to do to you


Date
March 6, 2023