APRIL 10/11/12

Designing Justice: Deanna Van Buren

ARCHITECT / DEVELOPER / ADVOCATE FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Oakland, CA

Deanna Van Buren is an award-winning architect and activist recognized internationally for her leadership in using architecture, design, and real estate innovations to address the social inequities behind the mass incarceration crisis.

Van Buren is co-founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an architecture and design firm with the mission of dismantling and replacing the punitive infrastructure of the prison system with new spaces informed by restorative justice: peacemaking centers, mobile re-entry housing, holistic behavioral health hubs, spaces for youth, spaces for diversion/re-entry, and more.

LEARN MORE:
designingjustice.org
TED Talk: What a world without prisons could look like.

ANC*

Wednesday, APR 10
7pm
anc. museum auditorium

*The Anchorage lecture is brought to you in collaboration with the Anchorage Museum.

FBX

Thursday, APR 11
6:30pm
714 3rd Avenue

JNU

Friday, APR 12
5:30pm
GOLD TOWN THEATER

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Journey through past seasons

NOTEABLE PAST SPEAKERS

Thom Mayne
Glenn Murcutt
Iwan Baan
Wolfgang Buttress
James Turell
Andy Goldsworthy
Jenny Holzer
Peter Eisenman
Juhani Pallasmaa
Karen Finley
James Carpenter
Rick Joy
Bryan C. Lee, Jr.

Peter Zumthor
Shigeru Ban
David Chipperfield
Karim Rashid
Yves Behar
Stefan Sagmeister
David Adjaye
Einar Jarmund
Claesson Koivisto Rune
Cameron Sinclair
Jakob Trollback
Jessica Hische

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