Architecture and Hope

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath, talks to Laurie Taylor about the design of prisons and the importance of an architecture of hope which nurtures the possibility of rehabilitation, from Limerick to Norway. They’re joined by Lynne McMordie, Research Associate at the Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research at Heriot-Watt University, whose research suggests that the congregate nature of hostels and shelters for homeless people often compound the problems of residents, rather than providing a safe space or route to secure housing.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:59.4	Hello even though my researcher's memory of the maximum security wing in Durham
1:04.8	PRISM dates back the best part of 50 years. I only need to read the words I
1:10.0	wrote then in order to bring the scene to mind. There were no windows which opened
1:15.6	in this building to let in any air so the great concrete and steel vault throbbed
1:21.2	day and night, winter and summer to the rhythm of an inadequate
1:25.6	ventilation system. This was a lifeless cavern of railings and landings and pipes.
1:31.6	It's like living in a submarine, one prisoner told us.
1:36.4	And for these notorious prisoners, the voyage was measured in decades, not months.
1:42.8	Well, even at the very moment
1:44.4	when prison reformers are welcoming ministerial plans
1:47.8	to reduce the female prison population
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