Letters South of (Nordic) Design

Salazar, Pablo; Borrero, Alfredo Gutiérrez

doi:10.21606/nordes.2017.040

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“…In this public-services work, some argue that hearing a range of people's "blue sky" ambitions is a critical step, but that because designers' jobs are to make something happen, only the most pragmatic or "designable" ideas can actually be put forward (Dorst, 2015). Others argue that pragmatism can lead to interventions that solidify harmful practices and structures by failing to take into account the deeply structural nature of a problem (Calderón Salazar & Gutiérrez Borrero, 2017;Greenbaum, 1991). How might designers, and policy-makers and others who are engaging designers in their work, bring histories of what Wilson (2017) has called "carceral architectures," and their contemporary manifestations, forward to undo and unmake common sense proposals around the PIC?…”

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How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment

Agid

2022

Space and Culture

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The notion that policing and incarceration are permanent and necessary, if in need of reform or more “humane” design, guides contemporary practices of making in a range of design fields and, increasingly, designers’ forays into policy- and government service-making. These projects often take the form of spatial interventions and proposals for new jails, police stations, and, in some cases, the reorganization of the spaces around them. This article examines three projects—Chicago’s Polis Station, the New York City Justice Hubs, and the Oakland Power Projects—that contend with the infrastructure of the prison industrial complex, in part by asking people questions about policing and incarceration to envision what to build. Here, I focus on what shaped these questions, and how the questions in turn shaped the possibilities for design that emerged from them, in ways that matter deeply to the imbrication of architecture, design, and punishment.

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