Thread by @alexhaagaard

There are a ton of issues with this concept but the majority of the criticisms it's receiving iseen to be ignoring those in favour of a #PeeledOrangePhenomenon framing 🤨

https://twitter.com/Joshmedia/status/1414381981295685640

[Video shows what is essentially an automated Murphy bed in operation - a bed descends from the ceiling along a motorized track, merging with the sofa and covering the coffee table in a studio apartment living space]

A primary issue is that, like so many accessible "innovations" this device and its maintenance will be financially inaccessible to those who would most benefit from having it.

And replacing a regular Murphy bed with a mechanized one as a solution to regular Murphy beds seems like kind of a shitty solution versus just, y'know, building affordable, accessible housing.

All of which is being missed by the abled folks making their facile "lololol murphy beds already exist though" dunks

There's also the fact that the concept of accessible housing is itself being framed as a fundamentally unsustainable luxury that requires this kind of "innovation."

Can't decide if that counts as a version of the #PeeledOrangePhenomenon or just garden-variety design ableism.