Actually those people do not want to be singled out as 'the people who need these showers cum washing facilities' because what comes with that is the 'underclass cum hopelessness cum undeserving poor' branding and the patronising that comes with it.
Then comes the professional pride of those tasked to looking for solutions to problems they are unlikely to have experienced and so, so easily fall into patronising mode. Whatever it is that stops them talking one-on-one with what are called 'clients' these days is bewildering. Likewise, whatever is that gets in way of engaging with 'designers and design networks' is bewildering as well. Whatever it is that says there is an 'industrial one-size-fits-all product' when it is not the BUNNINGS WEBSITE that product cannot be made locally that too is mystifying.
When there are MENsheds, teachers, students, lecturers, community organisations, etc in the community able to, and typically willing to, assist it is perplexing that whatever is to be done has to be 'done to' rather than 'done with' the community cum taxpayers cum ratepayers.
Well here is an ECHOsurvey of some options that might be considered but maybe they will fail some test or other. However, it would be more than interesting if there was a predisposition to collaborate with, cooperate with, consult with networks within a community rather than CHERRYpick within, well who knows where, and come out with TOPdown lowest common denominator outcomes that are not by necessarily fit-for-purpose.
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