ADPSR in the Statehouse!
ADPSR's work was discussed at the California legislature on 10/10/13. We are making an impact! You can see the entire hearing at this link - http://www.calchannel.com/recent-archive/ (see Joint...
View ArticleQ&A on Worker Safety
ADPSR recently received a question about worker safety from a member, and ADPSR Board Member Shawn Hesse responded in great detail. We thought it was worth sharing here:Q: What can architects do to...
View ArticleSend us your drawings of degrading places...
As part of ADPSR's campaign to ban the design of spaces intended to violate human rights, we thought that we should help to educate design professionals and the public about what those spaces are like....
View ArticlePrisons and Urbanism - the Social or the Individual?
The question about better prison design often takes two different forms: can a “better” prison design improve conditions for people in prison, or can it improve the US prison system? One way we see a...
View ArticleCrowdfunding for Human Rights
ADPSR launched our first crowdfunding campaign earlier this week to support our work on human rights and the AIA Code of Ethics. ADPSR does much of its operations on a volunteer basis, with members who...
View ArticleDetails on Human Rights
Earlier today, the ADPSR national board of directors sent a 15-page letter to AIA detailing our proposal to prohibit the design of execution chambers and spaces for prolonged solitary confinement....
View Article"Sentenced" Exhibition opens at UC Berkeley
After working for over a year soliciting and sourcing material, it's exciting to be able to announce that ADPSR's exhibit "Sentenced: Architecture and Human Rights" is open at the Wurster Gallery at...
View ArticlePetition Update: AIA Responds - Condones Torture and Killing
This post is a copy of the Jan 6th update to supporters of our petition to the AIA.Dear supporters,The American Institute of Architects has responded to our petition, rejecting our proposal to...
View ArticlePanama, Prisons, and a journey towards Human Rights
The call from a Panamanian vice minister was a surprise: could I help with their assignment to replace a decrepit, abusive, crumbling old prison with a facility that would allow for real respect for...
View ArticleHuman Rights are not an Antitrust Violation
ADPSR has a strong counterpoint to the rather ridiculous claim that AIA made last year that our human rights proposal could cause antitrust issues for AIA (see here for a reminder). Thanks to pro bono...
View ArticleNew UN "Mandela Rules" on standards for prisoners
As a group long focused on the human rights abuses of American prisons, ADPSR welcomes the recent update of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which date back to...
View ArticleADPSR submits comments on solitary confinement
In December the American Correctional Association proposed modifying its standards for solitary confinement. It was a series of relatively minor proposed changes, starting with changing the name of the...
View ArticleADPSR Thanks AIA for Reconsidering Human Rights
AIA has informed ADPSR that the AIA National Ethics Council will (re)consider our proposal to prohibit the design of execution chambers and spaces intended for torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading...
View ArticleKudos to Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an organization currently in formation under the fiscal sponsorship of ADPSR, recently received a Thriving Cultures grant from the Surdna Foundation to...
View ArticleADPSR stands with Standing Rock, and calls on all designers to join us.
As caring people and design professionals, we are outraged to see peaceful acts of resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) met with escalating police brutality. The growing movement at...
View ArticleWho Wants to Build Trump's Border Wall?
To ADPSR's dismay, the Trump Administration recently published a bidding opportunity for design/construction firms for the border wall project.These firms will be jeopardizing public health, safety...
View ArticleStatement on the Grenfell Tower Fire
wikimedia commonsThe appearance, massing, and form of a building, including its relationship to its site and context, are integral to building performance. As architects, designers, and planners, we...
View ArticleEthical Professionals Discussion at Boston Society of Architects
When did pharmaceutical executives take the moral high-ground over architects?Most of the dozen or so people in attendance at the October 10, 2017 meeting of the BSA Ethics Committee said what you are...
View ArticleScapegoating School Design
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to blame school design for the recent school shooting in Santa Fe, TX, but as an architect I refuse to accept his scapegoating of school buildings for being ‘soft...
View ArticleADPSR and The Architecture Lobby Joint Statement on Design for Immigration...
June 20, 2018:The Architecture Lobby and ADPSR condemn the Justice Department’s zero-tolerance immigration enforcement policy issued on April 6, 2018. It is immoral and inhumane to separate children...
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