Architecture + Construction

Prisons don’t design and build themselves. Someone draws thin lines on a piece of paper that are turned into 6-by-8-foot cells in which we cage people for months, years, and decades. Sometimes they include windows, many times they don’t. But today, architects are refusing to design prisons, activists are disrupting their construction, and urban designers are laying out the infrastructure for liberation instead. Learn how we can design freedom.

Assignment

Read Textbook Chapter 1: Architecture + Construction (pgs. 2 - 8)
Answer Discussion Guide questions in Chapter 1: Architecture + Construction (pg. 1)
Watch the Punishment + Profit webinar on Architecture + Construction
Watch and share this week’s 5 Quick Facts video on social media

THE BRIAN LEHRER SHOW

punishment + Profit

A webinar series in collaboration with The Greene Space at New York Public Radio. Watch the replay below.

Speakers

Johnny PerezDirector of U.S. Prison Programs, National Religious Coalition Against Torture — **Johnny Perez**
Director of U.S. Prison Programs, National Religious Coalition Against Torture

Raphael SperryPast President, Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility — **Raphael Sperry**
Past President, Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility

Eunisses HernandezCo-Director, La Defensa & Organizer, #JusticeLA — **Eunisses Hernandez**
Co-Director, La Defensa & Organizer, #JusticeLA

Deanna Van BurenExecutive Director, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces — **Deanna Van Buren**
Executive Director, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

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