Inhabiting—the City as a Hostile Host raises awareness about the growth of hostile architecture and reflects on society’s attitudes towards the homeless and the architecture of their surveillance.

The combination of law and design can sometimes be effective that it renders the entire problem of homelessness—and also the unhoused people themselves—invisible to others. This invisibility has the potential to lead the larger community to grow unaware of the problem or even to mistakenly assume that the problem is less severe than it actually is. If the problem of homelessness is never encountered in daily life, and nor are the mechanisms that drive away the unhoused, then it becomes easier never to think about the issue. Robert Rosenberger, Callous Objects (Politics of visibility).

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