Humanizing High Security Spaces: Reformatories for Minor Offenders - The Teaching and Practice of Design for Social Innovation Towards Vulnerable Communities

Pérez de Mezquia, Eugenia and Albajez, Álvaro and Gil, Vanesa and Valverde, Maria Anonia (2024) Humanizing High Security Spaces: Reformatories for Minor Offenders - The Teaching and Practice of Design for Social Innovation Towards Vulnerable Communities. In: P/References of Design. Cumulus conference proceedings series, 1 . Cumulus Association, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Budapest, pp. 2139-2148. ISBN 978-952-7549-02-5

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Abstract

Community-engaged design project between the students of design of Escuela Superior de Dise?o de Aragón (ESDA) and the minor offenders interned in the Education and Internment Center by Court Order (CEIMJ Juslibol) Zaragoza, Spain. The focus of the project is on teaching our students and practicing design skills with people living in poverty or at risk of exclusion, working with vulnerable communities to accelerate the transition to a fair and ecological society. The practice of design involves intervention in a social group, and therefore, we should incorporate the anthropological dimension in methodological terms. Man being spatial, all experience depends on the place where it happens (Herrera & De O?a, 2016) A collaborative effort between students and vulnerable communities contributes to various aspects of design. A different approach and change of mindset applicable to teaching social design and design for social innovation (Mazini, 2015) A reformatory for minor offenders is neither a prison nor should it look like one (Pol, Esteve, García-Bores & Llueca, 1992) Educational-formative and welfare institutions, and more explicitly correctional institutions, are organizations that have served, by satisfying the urgent basic needs of the vulnerable population, as an effective method of social control, and architecture plays a very important role in this. The main objectives are: (a) The better use of space and its environmental conditions as spatial resources of intervention to facilitate treatment. (b) More dynamic environmental conditions facilitate the appropriation of the space by the inmates.

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