Deanna Van Buren: What a world without prisons could look like
ديانا فان بورين: كيف سيبدو العالم بدون سجون؟
Deanna Van Buren is an architect who designs spaces for peacemaking, inside and out. Full bio
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a "justice architect."
and I don't even design courthouses.
better prisons, right?
سجون أفضل، صحيح؟
they're building in Europe."
الجميلة في أوروبا."
of things that we're building.
اليوم لأمور نقوم ببنائها.
with an early prototype.
sent home from school
إرسالي للبيت من قبل المدرسة
because he called me the N-word.
وجهه لأنه دعاني بكلمة "ز".
a white community in rural Virginia.
فيرجينا كإجراء لإنهاء الفصل العنصري.
and I would build these little huts.
and blankets I had taken from my mom.
وبطانيات أخذتها من والدتي.
into my refuge,
as soon as I could,
designing shopping centers,
وهي تصميم مراكز التسوق،
for the first time.
Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.
الإصلاحية في ولاية بنسلفانيا.
of her incarcerated students
the positive power of design.
these tiny little windows,
الإسمنتي،هذه النوافذ بالغة الصغر،
observation towers,
العالية، أبراج المراقبة،
these cold, hard spaces,
the doors are clanking,
so many black and brown bodies.
مليئة بأجساد سوداء وبنية.
that had caused mass incarceration.
والتي تسببت في تفريق عنصري في الحجز.
building type we could have created
من المباني قمنا باختراعه
that we're doing to one another.
an alternative to this,
أن أصمم بديلًا لهذا،
it still doesn't feel good.
didn't know what to do.
ما الذي علي فعله.
about restorative justice.
it is a breach of relationship,
يكون ذلك خرق للعلاقة
who have been harmed
are really intense dialogues,
to find a way to repair the breach.
لإيجاد طريقة لإصلاح الخرق في القانون.
restorative justice builds empathy;
العدالة التجديدية تبني التعاطف،
by up to 75 percent;
of the most severe violence.
لمعظم الناجين من العنف الشديد.
and district attorneys
والقضاة ومحامي الولايات
and into restorative justice
المحكمة وإلى العدالة التجديدية
touch the system altogether.
why aren't we designing for this system?"
لا نصمم لهذا النظام؟"
to amplify restorative justice.
لتطبيق العدالة التجديدية.
to prison for decades.
probably some of your own --
على الأغلب بعض مقاطعاتكم.
as an alternative.
this dirty little storage room
غرفة التخزين االقذرة الصغيرة
for a program in a high school
طلاب الثانوية العامة
she was holding in this space
the community together
and gun violence in the community,
وعنف الأسلحة في المجتمع،
started to come here
as a space of refuge.
was amplifying the effects of the process.
كانت تكبر آثار العملية.
that architects always do, y'all.
دائماً ما يفعله المعماريون.
something massive now, right?
restorative justice center all by myself.
التجديدية في العالم بنفسي.
a beautiful figure on the skyline,
instead of going to court.
بدلاً من الذهاب للمحكمة.
end mass incarceration
of our citizens per capita
population there are black women.
of all these folks are coming home.
من هؤلاء الأشخاص سيعودون
sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
جنسية وجسدية وعاطفية شديدة.
on both sides of the harm.
a restorative justice expert,
the country's first design studios
of restorative justice and design.
العدالة التجديدية والتصميم.
in a totally different way.
جدران السجون بطريقة مختلفة تماماً.
to their personal transformation
بعمق بتحولاتهم الشخصية
at San Quentin for 27 years
on being accountable for that act
from behind bars.
for a community center
filled with these circular structures
of San Quentin for so long,
سان كوينتين لفترة طويلة،
the promise of restorative justice.
يفي بوعود العدالة التجديدية.
for restorative justice and healing
over and over again.
these spaces is not enough.
تصور هذه المساحات ليس كافياً.
for justice innovators.
peacemaking practices
الأصليين لمباشرة صنع السلام
in the United States.
في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
to design a peacemaking center?"
بتصميم مركز صنع السلام؟"
I had no backup to these guys.
لدي بديل لهؤلاء الأشخاص.
of Syracuse, New York,
من سيراكيوز، نيويورك،
with the community
an old drug house
Peacemaking Project is complete.
over 80 circles a year,
to engage in peacemaking
للإنخراط في صنع السلام
of those community members.
من أفراد هذا المجتمع.
after a history of family abuse,
تاريخ من الإعتداء الأسري،
in their own family
to do peacemaking.
الدخول في صناعة السلام.
like going to court.
she kind of looked around,
to the coordinator and said,
made a decision that day
the peacemaking process.
is transformed;
and they're healing.
I didn't go into a thing
peacemaking center.
centers in every community.
صنع سلام في كل مجتمع.
in Santa Rita Jail in California,
سانتا ريتا في كاليفورنيا،
designers, Doug, said,
getting back on my feet, healing --
الوقوف على قدمي، التماثل للشفاء...
when I get home,
returning to their communities
من هؤلاء يعودن إلى مجتمعاتهم
a year after their release.
your basic economic needs,
احتياجاتكم الإقتصادية الأساسية،
for job training and entrepreneurship.
على العمل و ريادة الأعمال.
"restorative economics."
لما نسميه "الاقتصاد التصالحي"
the country’s first center
المركز الأول في البلاد
and restorative economics.
والاقتصاد التجديدي.
and turn it into three things.
in the restaurant industry
العنصري في صناعة المطاعم
a criminal record or not.
we have bright, open, airy spaces
ساطعة، مفتوحة، متجددة الهواء
of activist organizations
of "Healthcare Not Handcuffs,"
dedicated space for restorative justice,
المكرسة للمعالجة التجديدية،
texture and spaces of refuge
المساحات والملمس للمأوى
in just two months.
New York and New Orleans.
نيويورك ونيو اوريانز.
we can build instead of prisons.
بناءهم بدلاً من السجن.
30 restorative justice centers.
30 مركز عدالة تجديدية.
الضرائب الخاصة بك.
is a really heavy lift.
in the communities that I was serving
to gun violence and mass incarceration.
بسبب عنف السلاح والسجن الجماعي.
and keep them out of the system.
وبشكل أسرع لإبعادهم عن نظام السجون.
we could build villages on wheels.
نستطيع بناء قرى على عجلات.
constellation of resources
in the greater San Francisco area,
social services and pop-up shops.
الخدمات الاجتماعية والمحلات.
with the community,
القرية بالكامل مع المجتمع،
into classrooms on wheels
إلى صفوف دراسية على عجلات
education across turf lines.
وGED وراء الحدود
of more students with this.
in the middle of the night,
من السجون في منتصف الليل،
and it pops up every single week,
افتتاح القرية، وتنبثق إسبوعياً،
communities as it goes.
and restorative economics
I have a list a mile long.
transitioning out of foster care.
to reunite with their children.
for survivors of violence.
that address the root causes
is a jail or a prison.
Cornel West says
looks like in public."
I ask you one more time
that we could build instead.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Deanna Van Buren - Activist, architect, artistDeanna Van Buren is an architect who designs spaces for peacemaking, inside and out.
Why you should listen
After practicing as a corporate architect for 12 years, Deanna Van Buren left her job to become an activist architect, and for the past six years she has been designing restorative justice centers instead of prisons in order to end the age of mass incarceration. She's the co-founder and design director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, based in Oakland, California. She's also interested in designing virtual spaces for peacemaking and was the lead architect for The Witness.
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