In London st Paul's cathedral shut its doors to visitors for the first time since the second world war, as activists refused to move their campsite from the cathedral's precincts.
Not many modern women, however frustrated with their lot, would choose to go back to long skirts, tight corsets and a general assumption that they are stupid.
The African colonies clustered in particular around the great promontory which, with Sicily opposite, forms the narrowest channel on the main Mediterranean sea route.
Essentially, they're signalling to those around them 'I understand what the social norm is and I understand that you know that I have failed in this regard, so please don't hurt me.'
But by encouraging people to step back and reconsider old problems or entrenched practices, the designer can begin to re-frame the challenge at hand-which can then steer thinking in new directions.
It is a vale whose acquaintance is best made by viewing it from the summits of the hills that surround it except perhaps during the droughts of summer.