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‘FIT AND RE-ORIENTATION’ –UNPACKING LAYERS OF CARCERAL DESIGN
HERITAGE IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN OF SPECIAL CARE
HOMES FOR YOUTH, AND ITS IMPACT ON WELL-BEING
FRANZ JAMESMFA, DOCTORAL STUDENT,
LECTURER, HDK –ACADEMY FOR DESIGN AND CRAFTS, UNIVERSITY OF
GOTHENBURGPARTNER HEALSAFE INTERIOR
[email protected]
SEPIDEH OLAUSSONRN, CCRN, PHD. SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY
OF GOTHENBURG.
[email protected]
3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR CARCERAL GEOGRAPHY
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Introduction
• The physical environment – Place and space (Cresswell, 2015)
Not only the built environment but also the socio-spatial
aspects
• Well-being (Galvin & Todres, 2014)One’s specific
experiences of being in the world, “dwelling-mobility” based on
Heidegger's notion of dwelling.
• Particular carceral design heritage (Harrison, 2012; Wener
2012). Heritage is not only what is to come but also the
past/history and how current ideologies, norms and values,
implicit, affect the shape of the institutions.
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Background
• Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS)
• Children and adolescents in the need of compulsory care
• Special residential homes (n 23), planned standard units
• Three year multidisciplinary research project. Aim: Creating
knowledge regarding the physical environment through the
perspective of the incarcerated children and adolescents
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Theoretical framework
• Queer phenomenology (Ahmed, 2006 )
• Carceral heritage and well-being
• Special residential homes, as experienced by incarcerated
young people.
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Aim
• Unpack and discuss carceral layers of particular design
heritage, and its impact on well-being
• A model to illustrate the dialectic relationship between the
physical environment and the incarcerated children and
adolescents
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Settings & participants • Former prisons, often rural
settings in nature• Male adolescents 16-21 years of age, females
13-21 years of age
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Methods
• Photovoice (Wang and Burris, 1997)• ’Sketch and Talk’ (James,
2017)
ORGANISATIONSNAMN (ÄNDRA SIDHUVUD VIA FLIKEN
INFOGA-SIDHUVUD/SIDFOT)
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Ethical considerations
• Vulnerable group
• Research person information, Informed consent
• Voluntary participation
• Approved by the committee of ethics (No: 1158-16)
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”Sketch and Talk”
• Ethnographic visual data collection method • Qualitative data
collection
• Developed by James (2017)
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Sketch and Talk
• Open-ended interviews• Simultaneous documentation / visual
documentation
• A way to embody/ take in the environment
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Photovoice
• Ethnographic / visual method
• Combination of photos and open-ended interviews
• Photo documentation
• Freirian theory, Feminism and Critical conciseness
• Qualitative data
(Wang and Burris, 1997)
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Photovoice
• Participants were invited to photograph various aspects of the
environment / objects that mattered to them or associated with a
feeling regardless of what the feeling was about.
• Polaroid camera was provided • The researchers were present
while photos were taken
• Open ended interviews using the photos as a tool for
reflection
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Photovoice
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’Sketch and Talk’
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Orientation
How the physical environment ‘Fits’ or ‘Re-Orientates’, in
relation to the youth’s “institutional carrier”.
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Critical discussion• Carceral design heritage is shaped and
formulated by how we choose to
define it in present time, heritage relates not only to
materiality and design, also to politics, values, morals and norms
(Hammerlin, 2018)
• The carceral interior design is repeatedly designed, not only
through unconscious tradition and ideology, but also by how and
where the interior is physically produced, and with that comes
embedded norms and heritage
• Heritage is not simply a given spatial and socio-material
tradition, it is also reproduces itself and as such producing new
heritage to come.
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Conclusion
It is of utter importance to critically consider the design of
contemporary standard rooms in special youth homes and to lay the
perspective of what is indented to be produced in this specific
context as well to reevaluate the impact that carceral heritage
may
have on well-being.
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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
FRANZ JAMES - [email protected] OLAUSSON -
[email protected]
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