Design for Obesity - ZEFRANK.COM

inclusivedesign · 10-24-2006, 06:58 AM

Despite the fact that obesity is a growing 'epidemic', modern society seems ill-equipped to deal with larger body sizes. Public transport, Airlines and Cinemas are a few examples. Should we redesign our cities to make them more 'fat friendly' or not?

Feel free to email me direct if you prefer at inclusivedesign@jameschetwood.com

Thanks a lot

James

dinzdale · 10-24-2006, 11:41 AM

What a load of bollocks.

Frieda · 10-24-2006, 11:47 AM

do you need special seating for your bollocks? should we redesign our cities to make your bollocks fit into them?

dinzdale · 10-24-2006, 11:52 AM

It makes as much sense.

How can you design anything for a short, tall, fat, thin, immobile, fit, left handed ambidextrous, person.

Fvcking bollocks I tells ye.

How about designing stuff cheaper for poor people? Better still make it edible for the hungry

Audreyvgs · 10-24-2006, 12:45 PM

There'd be some money well spent! How did we ever get along pre-pc?

dinzdale · 10-24-2006, 12:49 PM

Ha!

I just remembered that New Orleans will be a "chocolate city" - move the fvckers there and they'd eat the bastard.

I crack me up.......

Brynn · 10-24-2006, 01:13 PM

^

As for me, I think it would be great if everything would be re-designed for obese people - just think how much comfier an airline seat would be for everybody! (stretches luxuriously)

Coffee · 10-24-2006, 01:44 PM

I think a true "fat city" should be designed with NO fast food restraunts...all roads go uphill, cars are banned; walking or bicycling only allowed. Move the fat folks there till they are fit to live in regular cities. (jk of course

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dinzdale · 10-24-2006, 02:12 PM

If we're resdesigning for different people, let me know when I can get an appartment in Titville, or better yet, a pied-a-terre in Vadgetown.

Coffee · 10-24-2006, 07:05 PM

Sign me up for a small spread in Kitty Valley.

Jack Flanders · 10-24-2006, 07:18 PM

How about a high-rise condo in Peter's Valley? There's actually an area up the Delaware River by the Water Gap with that name. It always makes me giggle. oh and there was an old village outside of Princeton NJ now where Route 1 is called Penns Neck. Everyone I know around here always reads it with an invisisble "i" in the Penns.

Brynn · 10-24-2006, 09:23 PM

I live five miles from Beaverton, OR.

You can actually buy jerseys from the city's baseball farm league:
The Fighting Beavers

auntie aubrey · 10-24-2006, 10:22 PM

http://www.supersizeworld.com/

inclusivedesign · 10-26-2006, 06:30 AM

OK... Didn't expect that at all! Not quite sure how I managed to offend so many people but apologies all the same. Thanks auntie aubrey for the supersizeworld.com link. I guess my aim was not to make specialist shops however, but to somehow incorporate people so they didn’t have to use ‘specialist shops’ at all. The feedback was useful so please keep posting, even its just to talk about by bollocks again.

James

auntie aubrey · 10-26-2006, 10:06 AM

when you exist in a minority, you can't expect to shop with the majority.

it's capitalism, baby. just because some people take up 4 movie seats, that doesn't mean theaters should toss out 3 out of ever 4 seats to make room for the big'uns. it would be economic folly to think you could incorporate every form of "difference" into the design and structure of every aspect of the world.

guess what, there are a lot of short people in the world, too. maybe we should make a rule that nothing should be stored above the 4th shelf in any business establishment? and all public transportation should be low-riders.

the reason i posted the link for you was so you could see how market pressures create solutions. not what you suggested, which is a sponsored redesign of our entire world to accomodate a small minority. "small" used figuratively, of course.

10-24-2006, 06:58 AM	#1
inclusivedesign Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 4	Design for Obesity Despite the fact that obesity is a growing 'epidemic', modern society seems ill-equipped to deal with larger body sizes. Public transport, Airlines and Cinemas are a few examples. Should we redesign our cities to make them more 'fat friendly' or not? Feel free to email me direct if you prefer at inclusivedesign@jameschetwood.com Thanks a lot James

10-24-2006, 11:47 AM	#3
Frieda in limbo Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 19,506	do you need special seating for your bollocks? should we redesign our cities to make your bollocks fit into them? __________________ zoek waar je wil, maar het zit in jezelf oh yeah

10-24-2006, 12:45 PM	#5
Audreyvgs Blue's Clues Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: on Yur Last Nerve, huh? Posts: 5,412	There'd be some money well spent! How did we ever get along pre-pc? __________________ I just LOVE what you haven't done with the place!

10-24-2006, 01:13 PM	#7
Brynn constantly amazed Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: in the labyrinth of shared happiness Posts: 6,206	^ As for me, I think it would be great if everything would be re-designed for obese people - just think how much comfier an airline seat would be for everybody! (stretches luxuriously) __________________ 1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. 3. Your foot will change direction.

10-24-2006, 09:23 PM	#12
Brynn constantly amazed Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: in the labyrinth of shared happiness Posts: 6,206	I live five miles from Beaverton, OR. You can actually buy jerseys from the city's baseball farm league: The Fighting Beavers __________________ 1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. 3. Your foot will change direction.

10-24-2006, 11:41 AM	#2
dinzdale King of the špatnýs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: was that dog Posts: 9,411	What a load of bollocks.

10-24-2006, 11:52 AM	#4
dinzdale King of the špatnýs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: was that dog Posts: 9,411	It makes as much sense. How can you design anything for a short, tall, fat, thin, immobile, fit, left handed ambidextrous, person. Fvcking bollocks I tells ye. How about designing stuff cheaper for poor people? Better still make it edible for the hungry

10-24-2006, 12:49 PM	#6
dinzdale King of the špatnýs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: was that dog Posts: 9,411	Ha! I just remembered that New Orleans will be a "chocolate city" - move the fvckers there and they'd eat the bastard. I crack me up.......

10-24-2006, 01:44 PM	#8
Coffee Cheeses Save Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Floating Posts: 9,204	I think a true "fat city" should be designed with NO fast food restraunts...all roads go uphill, cars are banned; walking or bicycling only allowed. Move the fat folks there till they are fit to live in regular cities. (jk of course )

10-24-2006, 02:12 PM	#9
dinzdale King of the špatnýs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: was that dog Posts: 9,411	If we're resdesigning for different people, let me know when I can get an appartment in Titville, or better yet, a pied-a-terre in Vadgetown.

10-24-2006, 07:05 PM	#10
Coffee Cheeses Save Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Floating Posts: 9,204	Sign me up for a small spread in Kitty Valley.

10-24-2006, 07:18 PM	#11
Jack Flanders landscaping is fun Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: up river and down river Posts: 4,815	How about a high-rise condo in Peter's Valley? There's actually an area up the Delaware River by the Water Gap with that name. It always makes me giggle. oh and there was an old village outside of Princeton NJ now where Route 1 is called Penns Neck. Everyone I know around here always reads it with an invisisble "i" in the Penns.

10-24-2006, 10:22 PM	#13
auntie aubrey excursions Join Date: May 2006 Location: beyond the call of duty Posts: 2,443	http://www.supersizeworld.com/ __________________ that dog won't hunt, monsignor

10-26-2006, 06:30 AM	#14
inclusivedesign Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 4	Design for Obesity OK... Didn't expect that at all! Not quite sure how I managed to offend so many people but apologies all the same. Thanks auntie aubrey for the supersizeworld.com link. I guess my aim was not to make specialist shops however, but to somehow incorporate people so they didn’t have to use ‘specialist shops’ at all. The feedback was useful so please keep posting, even its just to talk about by bollocks again. James

10-26-2006, 10:06 AM	#15
auntie aubrey excursions Join Date: May 2006 Location: beyond the call of duty Posts: 2,443	when you exist in a minority, you can't expect to shop with the majority. it's capitalism, baby. just because some people take up 4 movie seats, that doesn't mean theaters should toss out 3 out of ever 4 seats to make room for the big'uns. it would be economic folly to think you could incorporate every form of "difference" into the design and structure of every aspect of the world. guess what, there are a lot of short people in the world, too. maybe we should make a rule that nothing should be stored above the 4th shelf in any business establishment? and all public transportation should be low-riders. the reason i posted the link for you was so you could see how market pressures create solutions. not what you suggested, which is a sponsored redesign of our entire world to accomodate a small minority. "small" used figuratively, of course. __________________ that dog won't hunt, monsignor

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