We Pledge to Never Participate in the Design of Spaces of Detention
Published
The names of the signatories will be regularly added to this page.
We are making a few past articles of the magazine and podcast episodes available to all in order to provide a useful resource complementing this pledge:
- MAKING ABOLITION GEOGRAPHY IN CALIFORNIA’S CENTRAL VALLEY
with Ruth Wilson Gilmore in The Funambulist 21 (Jan-Feb. 2019) Space & Activism - RACIALIZED CRIMINALIZATION AND PRISON UPRISINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
with Orisanmi Burton in The Funambulist 12 (July-August 2017) Racialized Incarceration - ON PRISON ABOLITIONISM
with Nasrin Himada in The Funambulist 04 (Mar-Apr. 2016) Carceral Environments / You can also listen to this conversation in The Funambulist Podcast - BODIES IN RESISTANCE IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND’S POLITICAL PRISONS
by Fiona McCann in The Funambulist 04 (Mar-Apr. 2016) Carceral Environments - DOCUMENTING THE UNDOCUMENTED: CARCERAL ARCHITECTURE AND MIGRANT BODIES
with Tings Chak in The Funambulist Podcast episode 41 (May 2014). - ON GENOCIDE, DETENTION, AND REFUGEEHOOD
with Imran Mohammad in The Funambulist Podcast episode 134 (December 2019). - ABOLISH ALL PRISONS: FOR A REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE AND NON-PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
by Léopold Lambert in The Architectural Review (June 2018). - VIOLENCE BY DESIGN: RESISTING CARCERAL LOGIC FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS, a zine edited by Spectra Studio (in collaboration with The Funambulist)
We also recommend consulting the Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) website, as well as this comprehensive text by Rachel Kushner about the abolitionist work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Names of signatories as of March 9, 2023 (205 architects & designers):
Bogdan Ionescu
Henri Bony
Yro Kazara
Constantinos Miltiadis
Elisa Ferrato
Andreas Iosif
Scott Sorli
Jules Salmon
Elise Hunchuck
César Reyes Nájera
Raphael Pauschitz (Revue Topophile)
Stephanie Murray
Serena Abbondanza
Eustacia Brossart
Nadia El Hakim
Siboney Diaz-Sanchez
Silvester Kreil
Madeeha Merchant
Miriam H. Abraham
Nagy Makhlouf
Arvind Ramachandran
Nathaniel Loretz
Patrick Donbeck
Liza Walling
Amy Broska
Jennifer Endozo
Ricard Aronsson
Danil Jerdev
Francesco Montresor
Daniel Bracher
Joelle Aoun
xinyu lyu
Jing Ling
Tibourki Youssef
Lea Moro
Laura Walker
João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Kristell Germond
Aaron Wheeler
Menna Agha
T. Mkhwanazi
Garine Boghossian
Renée Christiane
Mustafa Faruki / theLab-lab for architecture
Jovana Timotijević
Caroline Wineburg
Mohamed ali chtioui
Alexander Bodkin
Christin Hu
Sib Trigg
Scott Sorli
Aniella Sophie Goldinger
Katerina Vartala
Ersela Kripa
Violeta Burckhardt
Sheila Lin
Samuel Carvalho
fran edgerley
Abdulrahman El-Taliawi
Sben Korsh
chantal cornu
Micah Piven
Nicholas Gilliland
Alex Ordog
Jeffry Hogrefe
MICAH PIVEN
Beth Weinstein
Zoya Mohsin
Soo Ok Han
Luca Senise
Renan Teuman
Chris Taylor
Mark Lakeman
Ameneh Solati
Carolina Carneiro
Frederick Kannemeyer
Nadav Joffe
Chris Yu Jen Su
Jordan Rae
Andrea Hunt
Jeff dardozzi
Michal Janák
sahasawat
Maxime Dumas
Vincelot Léa
Spencer Small
Phélicia Gingras
Alexandria Sarter
Caitlin Senne
Katherine Marple
Troy Lemieur
Elisa Antunes
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Esra Can