Hostels, she said, "have this reputation of being dirty, unsafe and all that sort of stuff.
"It's not my role to invent some sort of balance saying there's this other stuff that thinks it's unsafe".
Papanek accused designers of creating useless, unnecessary and unsafe products; of wastefully propagating product obsolescence; of creating "stuff-lust" that promoted materialistic lifestyles.
After all, back in the middle ages people drank the stuff all day because the alcohol killed all the nasty bugs that made the water unsafe.
They said, "Sorry, you're not allowed to go in there". I told them I just needed to get some of my stuff and they said they couldn't let anyone in because the building was structurally unsafe.
Although not stated explicitly, some participants believed that the industry still makes a profit from the sale of unsafe products: One participant recognized the financial burden of unsafe products: "…with my first son I had all that stuff, man, sides up and bumpers.
"Black people think they can just make stuff up and get away with it," she says during one bit that is more than a tad unsafe.
