Justice design: Rural women
Rural resource networks are distributed across wide areas with tenuous support and often fail to adequately meet their communities’ needs; infrastructure dedicated to women is even more scarce. Municipal justice facilities are increasingly called-upon as trusted community centers to respond to a variety of complex needs.
This inquiry is framed by trauma-informed, gender-specific, bioregional, and universal design theory; emerging theories will be applied when meaningful benefit to agency and sovereignty for queer people and people of color is recognizable; the audience for this work is justice design teams (i.e. designers, jurisdictions, operators, direct users, residents), direct users of the space are regarded as experts. Studying improvement in outcomes for non-binary people and women and their communities.
Justice design:
Urban
Youth
Across the United States juvenile justice is a highly contentious and evolving discussion. While some call for complete abolition of youth detention others advocate for raising the age of housed youth to support those in need. This review of articles discusses normative, trauma-informed, gender-specific design specific to youth; cultural competence; criminalization of youth of color in cities; and architecture’s role in the school-to-prison pipeline.
This scholarship endeavors to record and compare perspectives on the rights for youth, particularly neurodiverse youth, youth of color, and queer youth. This information collects precedent and discourse that may be used in advocacy for health/safety/wellbeing.
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Integrated green building
Talking points and research briefs connecting high-performance design and its influence on well-being metrics like equity, performance, satisfaction, and health.
The intended audience of this work is design teams, those who advocate for innovative building methods and performance, evidence-driven operators and facilities managers.
Material Health:
LCA tool
This spreadsheet collects information on construction materials and puts out rough calculations of their related emissions.
With this tool, it is relatively easy to compare similar products and weigh their various benefits and disadvantages.
For embodied carbon in construction calculator and more information about embodied carbon in construction, refer to the Carbon Leadership Forum and https://www.buildingtransparency.org/
Food insecurity in Denver, CO
1/5 of Americans has received support through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the form of food stamps. Although some grocery stores accept food stamps, most food assistance comes from food banks. This analysis studied active food banks in the Denver Metro area and found that the perception of food banks and their users differs greatly from reality.
This information could be used to communicate network demands to service providers, policy makers, advocates and funders.