Jane Frederick, the organization’s 2020 president, announced today that the group will bar its architect members from undertaking such work. Read the full release.
How do architects, designers, and planners help divest from systems of oppression and instead invest in the communities and people most negatively affected, ask Deanna Van Buren and Garrett Jacobs of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces.
Developed by the Van Alen Institute, Melissa Mark-Viverito, the NYC Criminal Justice Task Force, and others, Justice In Design offers a framework for more efficient, supportive, and humane city jails.
Playful yet menacing, the fangs of a grinning dragon greet you as you enter @Large, dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s extensive installation at Alcatraz, the notorious former prison in San Francisco Bay.
