Letter from the Chair
Summer is here and so is our 2nd quarter journal of 2018! This issue is a special edition on gender with a focus on women. We hope you enjoy this latest effort to bring relevant and thought-provoking articles to the justice community. As always, we want to hear from you and further understand your interests.
First, we will focus on our latest Emerging Professional, Katherine Dixon. Ms. Dixon is Director Division of Capital Construction and Facilities Maintenance Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. She is not a traditional emerging professional, she is an architect with years of experience, but this is a newer role. She has an important voice and hopefully our readership gets to know her just a bit better here.
The next article is an absolute treat and comes all the way from Australia! Architect Sarah Paddick takes us through the upgrade of Adelaide’s Women’s Prison. On its own merit, the design of the renovation is progressive, appropriate and really speaks to a what works in good prison design. But the upgrades go beyond the building itself and creates an interesting work program for the inmates. This is a truly inspirational project.
We continue to discover the article that explores gender in justice and in courthouse design. Titled, “Gendered Justice: Are Courts Male or Female? A Way of Thinking about Inclusive Courthouse Design – Part III, is included here. This composition, with parts 1&2 in the Q1 Journal, inspired our Q2 Journal to be dedicated to the subject of gender.
Finally, the theme of this quarter, inspired me to share some thinking on designing correctional environments for women. In my article Architecture for the Invisible: Understanding the Female Offender, I try to pinpoint how and why designing for women can and should be different. As a woman, designing for other women, this article attempts an empathetic yet critical view.
In other news, Erin Persky is out and about presenting her work on Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Courthouses. She is putting the finishing touches on it and will be back in Q3. I’m looking forward to it and expect that you are too!
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Kindest,
Kerry Feeney
Chair – AAJ Communications Committee 2018
kfeeney@numberten.com
Articles:
Emerging professional profile of Katherine Dixon, AIA LEED AP BD+C
By the AAJ Communications Committee
Katherine shares about her current work, challenges and her future in the justice architecture world.
The Adelaide Women’s Accommodation Upgrade Project- from architectural challenge to Social Justice Initiative
by Sarah Paddick B.Arch St, B.Arch FRAIA
Sarah describes the challenge to upgrade oppressive cells, narrow dark corridors and undersized association spaces that create an utterly bleak living environment with little to redeem it.
by Judge Celeste F. Bremer, US Magistrate Judge, Emily Gloe Donovan, RA, Susan Oldroyd, FAIA, LEED, Kristina Kobulsky, RA, LEED AP
Part III of taking a deeper look into elements of design needed for a new courthouse for today’s citizens and culture
Architecture for the Invisible: Understanding the Female Offender
by Kerry Feeney B.E.S., B. Arch, MAA, LEED AP
Kerry's take on the argument that female inmates are at the periphery of the prison and corrections systems.
Reminder: The AIA University Outreach Committee update
by April Pottorff, FAIA, Chair
Given how evidence serves as the basis for our justice practices and design solutions, the AAJ University Outreach committee is exploring the idea of establishing a Justice Institute in partnership with the University of Kansas. We see this an exciting opportunity to partner with the AAJ Research Committee, specialized industry partners, market-sector firms and the University of Kansas to further research within the justice market.
Reminder: Save the date for AAJ Conference 2018 - Enlightened Justice: Advancing Treatment
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