Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building
Presenters: Professor Yvonne Jewkes
Designs on Punishment: The Architecture of Incarceration and the Architecture of Hope
The 2016 John Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology
What should prisons look like? How would you design a new correctional facility? And why are the UK and Australia following the USA in building larger institutions, when countries in many parts of Europe are adamant that ‘small is beautiful’ when it comes to prison design?
Drawing on the findings of a major, three-year international research study that looks at the role of prison architects and the effects of carceral design, Professor Yvonne Jewkes will discuss the broad rationales behind current prison expansion and modernization programmes. She will discuss the primary drivers behind design decisions and the extent to which those who commission and construct prisons are attuned to the effects of their decisions on the everyday lives of prisoners and prison staff. Using examples of international best (and worst) practice, Professor Jewkes will reflect on whether architects might take a different approach to designing and building prisons – for example, by taking a lead from the architectural theorist behind Maggie’s Centres (a developing, global cancer care network), who has eschewed the sterile, dehumanising environment of the typical hospital in favour of an ‘architecture of hope’. But are the concepts of a ‘healthy’ or ‘hopeful’ prison realistic or even desirable? And just how far can design creativity be taken in the custodial context?
Professor Yvonne Jewkes joined the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton in January 2016 as Research Professor in Criminology.
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww87rTX6lbo
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