
Fend For Yourselves – The Ranty Highwayman
The infrastructure versus culture debate continues to fascinate me. I remain convinced it is the infrastructure which creates the culture, but at the same time, there’s the tricky problem of the culture which drives the infrastructure.
It’s classic chicken and egg because we get who we design for, but where we are used to designing for one group, we continue the cycle. This week, we’ve seen the debacle over the removal of a pretty basic, but incredibly effective cycling scheme on Kensington High Street, not for any data-led reasons, but because of lots of noise and selected attention by local politicians.