2016 Second Quarter Issue

This issue of the AAJ Journal is sponsored by: LIFT-U

Letter from the Chair

I write this short note to all of you from the sidelines as this issue has Stacey Wiseman of CGL as its Guest Editor. Her work on this issue has been remarkable. With Stacey at the helm, it should come as no surprise that Quarter 2 focuses on juvenile justice facilities and specifically their relationship with education. Stacey has even included some video interviews – be sure to see Xenia Cox, an education activist, interviewing Rutgers student Boris Franklin in a diner! Curious yet? I know you will agree; Stacey has done a great job curating this important journal issue.

Don't miss the interview featuring Emerging Professional Brooke Martin. The dialogue is so personable and her energy for the work is genuine. It is hard to believe that Brooke somehow manages a career at Dewberry as she completes her Master's of Architecture degree. Her future is bright.

Without further ado, check out Stacey's letter for more.

Kindest,
Kerry Feeney (signature)
Kerry Feeney
Chair – AAJ Communications Committee 2015
kfeeney@numberten.com

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Letter from the guest editor, Stacey Wiseman

Last November, I boarded a plane headed for Miami to attend my first AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Conference. Excited, and a little anxious, I was attending my inaugural conference as a scholar and moderator. There was no need for nerves; the experience was phenomenal. Months later, a key element from three panels on juvenile justice continued to resonate with me.

Meet Brooke Martin, Emerging Professional

By the AAJ Communications Committee

Brooke Martin shares how her dreams at the age of 8 led to this career, her vision of a Net-Zero jail design, and why she considers justice architecture an amazing field to be in.

Education Initiatives for the Baltimore Youth Detention Center

By Stacey Wiseman, AIA and Katherine Dixon, AIA

How do you develop a juvenile facility that helps youth with successful re-entry to society? Katherine Dixon shares how the Baltimore Youth Detention Center, under construction with expected completion in March 2017, will help answer that question with a focus on the classroom.

Opportunity and engagement through vocational programs in juvenile facilities

By Karen Sicner, AIA

Four years after a sweeping overhaul of Georgia's criminal justice system, the momentum towards reducing recidivism among youth offenders includes vocational training, both in and after detention. Innovation in juvenile justice affects facility design, with a focus on making the classrooms look more like a typical school facility.

Horticultural rendering for a vocational program

Including end user voices in the design of jails and prisons

By Xenia Cox

Driven by their own belief in the power of design to support a restorative justice movement that is fast growing, a group of talented young architects assembled a cross-disciplinary team of change-makers to tackle the challenge of reimagining juvenile justice facilities. This team's process led to the foundational principle of great design – the voice and experience of the end user. Boris Franklin, now a student at Rutgers, shares his insight in a series of videos.

Registration is now open!

ALOHA! Sharing Justice Architecture Best Practices
November 2-5, 2016 | The Modern - Honolulu

Join us in Hawaii to share our knowledge with one another and contributing to establish better means and values for advancing best practices of Justice Architecture, earning up to 18.5 AIA LUs. Save $100 by registering before September 14th.

Get a head start on planning your conference experience by viewing the schedule! Pick one track—courts, detention/correction, or public safety—or attend the courses of your choice across the tracks.

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Conference Keynotes

Alternative Futures of Justice and Architectural Design

James Dator, Professor and Director

It is not possible to predict the future, but it is possible and useful to forecast and explore the consequences of four generic alternative futures—Grow, Collapse, Discipline, Transform. This talk will focus on the differing role of environmental and architectural design in each of these four futures, especially concerning law, social control, and justice.

Rebuilding Justice: Court Design after the Christchurch Earthquakes

Chief Justice Jan Doogue, Judge Colin Doherty

This session will explore the effects of the earthquake on courts in Christchurch with emphasis on design parameters of a modern complex—which will be among the world's most earthquake-resilient buildings—which responded not just to the cataclysm but the lessons learned from the enforced contact of the justice system with traditional cultural values and design.

New: Justice Facilities Review Luncheon

The AAJ Leadership seeks to make the JFR celebration the centerpiece of the conference. Attendees asked for more free time at night. Therefore we will not have a separately ticketed evening event this year.

The JFR celebration will take place on Thursday as a luncheon, our historically most highly attended session at the conference. Access to the luncheon is included in all full conference registrations. Additional guest tickets to the luncheon may be purchased through the regular conference registration process.

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