REFERENCES
Articles and Literature
Reducing Prison Disorder Through Situational Prevention: The Glen Parva Experience
Richard Wortley & Lucia Summers
This article describes the use of situational strategies to reduce prison disorder at HMYOI Glen Parva. Three problem behaviours are described – bullying, shouting from cell windows, and scalding of staff with hot water
An Evaluation of the Safer Locals Programme [Final Report]
Liebling, et al
The aim of this study was to determine whether relevant changes to the prison environment, including improved suicide prevention practices, could be brought about via determined policy.
Wellbeing in prison design:
A guide
Developed by the architecture practice, Matter, this resource compiles evidence from the field of environmental psychology to specify areas of design that will support the health and wellbeing of people residing in, working in and visiting prisons.
Sunniva Helland
Researcher looking to make skill-learning in prison more transferable to opportunities outside of prison
[ LINK TO RESEARCH ]
Hey Babe – Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Lorraine Gamman & Adam Thorpe
Why Role-playing and Visualisation of User and Abuser "scripts" Offer Useful Tools to Effectively "Think Thief" and Build Empathy to Design Against Crime
'Designing Products Against Crime'
Paul Ekblom
See pages 215-222 on troublesome tradeoffs
Roland Karthaus
Architect and researcher involved in the design architecture of prisons
[ LINK TO RESEARCH ]
Lisa Lavia
Lisa Lavia's work with Brighton Council uses sound to try and reduce crime
{coming soon}
[ LINK TO RESEARCH ]
'Thinking Thief'
Lorraine Gamman & Ben Hughes
While designers take on board, consciously or unconsciously, many factors and issues in their decision-making process, crime is generally perceived as ‘beyond’ their remit. Should this really be the case and how can the way in which products are designed reduce crime?
'Freedom Room Project'
Comodo and Cibic Workshop
Komodo (cooperative) and Cibic (design agency) collaborated with a high security prison, Spoleto's correctional facility.
They worked with a group of inmates to redesign the inside of a cell.
'Prisoner Inventions'
A collaboration between Angelo, an incarcerated artist, and Temporary Services (Brett Bloom & Marc Fischer)
Angelo was asked to illustrate and describe the many incredible inventions made by prisoners that he had made, seen, or heard about over the years.
John Wynne
Sound artist looking at how sound affects health and wellbeing in the context of hospitals
[ LINK TO RESEARCH ]
Film and Theatre
STRETCH
Stretch is an arts charity that engages marginalised groups through art and cultural interventions. Stretch works mainly with the offending community and Looked After Children.
Carlotta Allum is the founder of Stretch and a PhD design researcher at Central Saint Martins.
Prison
A rare insight into life behind bars, exploring the issues that prison staff and prisoners face at HMP Durham.
Carlotta Allum is the founder of Stretch and a PhD design researcher at Central Saint Martins.
Cellfies
Audio recording and pictures Dean Stalham's play Cellfies at Central Saint Martins on the 11.02.2019