Kompian hospital
Cultural Centre
Anganwadi
Disability day center
Vulnerability and risk: rebuilding communities after disaster
Buiding Communities IV
Educational centre
Restoring and upgrading the old town of Hebron
Dental clinic and blood bank
Hosting city Porto: Call for Ideas
Avieira’s culture legacy
Masterplan of St Francis Javier Hospital Complex
Hosting and social inclusion of migrants in Europe (Youth Programme)
School and housing
Building the Guambian Community
Rehabilitation of the historical and cultural heritage of an oasis
Solidarity Project
Cultural Centre
Educational support centre
Public School
Projet Gabions méditerranée
Earthquake-resistant Housing
Solar Energy for Rural Development
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Children and staff accomodation
Earth construction and community project
Primary schools
The key RHS Chelsea flower show garden
Veterinary school in saharawi refugee camp
Building with people
Sustainable development
Vulnerability and risk workshop
Building communities III
Center for children and juveniles
Rural housing
Day care center for drugs addicts
Primary school
Nursery school
Re-cover(y)
Design primer competition for an aids orphanage
Health Care Center
Reconstruction and enlargement of a new day-hospital psychiatric clinic
Education Center for fine arts and handcrafts Desiré Somé
Building houses in recovered land
Underground carpark upgrade into arts-space
Building communities I
New hosting model for migrants and refugees center
Construction of a new surgical ward in St Francis Javier Hospital
Shelter and formation centre for Paysans Sans Frontières
Trebilhadouro
Primary school in Naipa
To raise awareness about the negative aspects of the US prison system, and to disseminate on alternatives to incarceration
Period:
Continuous
Cause:
To raise awareness about the negative aspects of the US prison system, and to disseminate on alternatives to incarceration
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[Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility->www.adpsr.org/]
The aim of the project is to wage a campaign among design professionals that will raise awareness about the negative aspects of the US prison system, and to pave the way for alternatives to incarceration.
Originally launched in 2004 as the Prison Design Boycott, ADPSR’s Prison Alternatives Initiative calls on architects, other design professionals, and the public to support community-based alternatives to incarceration. ADPSR considers the U.S. prison system to be a devastating moral blight on our society and an overwhelming economic burden on tax dollars, taking away much needed resources from schools, health care and affordable housing. The prison system is corrupting society and making people more threatened, rather than protecting them as its proponents claim. It is a system built on fear, racism, and the exploitation of poverty. Architects should rather be using their professional skills to design positive social institutions such as universities or playgrounds.
Stopping the construction of prisons is only one step towards the better society that ADPSR aspires to. In order to minimize the use of prisons it is necessary to develop alternatives to imprisonment as responses to anti-social behaviour. An important first step would be to pass better laws and move towards “restorative justice,” in which an offender can make restitution to those who have been hurt, and to society at large, in a community process of work and reconciliation.