期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2018
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：91-110
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2018.02.010
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThis paper argues that designers have a future role to play in redesigning prison systems. It describes the Makeright anti-theft bag action research project that first ran at HMP Thameside, London (UK) in 2015, and later at Sabarmati Central Jail, Ahmedabad (India) in 2016. It offers an account of the strengths and limitations of utilizing co-design methods to deliver transformational learning for prison inmates, and build resilience and entrepreneurship skills. Between 2015–17 we delivered seven iterations of the Makeright design course. A total of eighty-five UK inmates and twenty-five Indian inmates participated; we also performed twenty-six interviews with inmate participants, which we report on here. This article reflects on our practice, including our engagement with prison staff to iteratively improve our approach. We conclude that whilst inmates can strongly engage with design thinking and collaborative design practices—and benefit from the skills and competencies this fosters—for design education to be meaningful to their lives as returning citizens, opportunities for collaboration and learning through making need to continue beyond prison gates linked to resettlement programs. We suggest that prisons need to redesign their systems both inside prison walls and beyond to better connect inmates to reflexive relational networks that can facilitate social integration and, ultimately, abstinence from crime.Highlights•Analyzes a gap in knowledge about theories and processes of empathy and the way social innovators engage with empathy.•Explores the value of design education strategies aimed at building the empathic capacity of inmate learners in prison (as a community in place) identifying what can be achieved using design thinking and creative methods.•Reviews “hooks for change” that occur through making.•Raises questions about closed prison systems, and how open design methods and creative incubator units could better help prisons with the tricky issue of resettling returning citizens.
