Building Hope: Art, Architecture, and Criminal Justice
27 Apr 2025 - 10:00
Building Hope: Art, Architecture, and Criminal Justice
Join us for a
discussion about how reshaping the structures we’re bound by can transform
our lives, with two authors who have decades of experience working in the
criminal justice system. Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes is a world leading
expert on prison design, and in her thoughtful book, An Architecture of Hope,
she asks fundamental questions about what might help someone at the lowest
point in their life to rebuild. Kirstin Anderson has been running book groups
and artistic programmes in Scottish prisons for over 17 years. Her book, The
Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation, documents a radical
project undertaken at Glasgow’s largest prison to incorporate creative
activities and rethink the organisation of power.
Yvonne and Kirstin speak to Paisley-based writer and prison practitioner
Lorna Callery-Sithole about their fascinating books, both of which have the
potential to revolutionise the way we think about incarceration.
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