What makes an environment socially inaccessible? Rooted in affluence, tennis perpetuates environments of exclusivity through its refined aesthetics and longstanding association with the social elite; minimalism operates behind a veil of universality that conceals to create illusions of simplicity; gentrification leverages minimalist design principles to manipulate the social contours of marginalized neighborhoods through sleek developments.
As mechanisms of social distinction and illusive accessibility, these systems create socially inaccessible environments. This research challenges fixed interpretations of these systems through Structuralist and Post-Structuralist frameworks as a form of cultural criticism, reframing them to propose more pluralistic frameworks for interpretation encompassing both spatial and sociocultural dimensions.