Throughout the years I have had the chance to live in very beautiful neighborhoods and I have become convinced that urbanism and architecture impact human behavior and human happiness immensely. The following essays reflect some of the ideas that I have investigated and experienced first-hand. The first series of essays deals with the concepts of pro-social and anti-social architectures, or how our surroundings can incentivize pleasant and productive interactions among humans (pro-social design) or conversely can inhibit or even foster unpleasant and destructive interactions (anti-social design).
Happy reading.
ESSAYS ON PROSOCIAL AND ANTISOCIAL ARCHITECTURES:
- Part 3: Solving urgent social problems through pro-social architectures: The case of the adult loneliness epidemic in Mexico – coming soon.
- Part 4: The most famous example of prosocial and antisocial architectures: human-centered vs car-centered urbanism – coming soon.
- Part 5: The generalized case for urgency in the implementation of prosocial architectures: The disappearance of even the most natural human tendencies such as walking, socializing and playing (What used to be obvious no longer is) – coming soon.
- Part 6: Dark UX patterns or deliberately anti-social architecture. Making humans suffer through bad design for fun and profit (Happy people playing on parks don´t consume much)
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Rodrigo Serrano 