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RESCALED

A house is a house is a house

15.06.21

16:00—17:00
Online

RESCALED is a European network organisation that supports the use of detention houses instead of large prison institutions.

Join their livestream, with among others Arcam-director Indira van ’t Klooster, on Tuesday 15 June from 4pm-5pm.

Register via the buttion.

A house is a house is a house

What is the variation in the different types of houses? ‘In the Netherlands, there are many great examples of small-scale housing forms that could (partly) be used as detention houses. They have been around for decades and are already being used in many different ways. So…we have the houses…we have the knowledge … and we have the network … Why are people still going to prison instead of going to different types of houses? We will talk about this during the Livestream ‘A house is a house is a house.’

In 2021... many different types of (detention) houses are fully integrated into communities)
Annie Kountz Indira van ’t Klooster Veronique Aicha Achoui
Annie Kountz
Spreker

Annie is a Senior Associate at MASS Design Group who joined MASS in 2021. Prior to MASS, Annie designed and managed architectural projects focused on social and racial justice. This ranged from supportive housing, schools, early education centers, community centers and restorative justice centers for non-profits and public agencies in New York City. Her projects received multiple awards in New York state and nationally. At MASS, she is currently working on the design of an affordable housing and health care project. She works with the Restorative Justice Design Lab, which leverages architecture to imagines

Indira van ’t Klooster
Moderator

Indira van ’t Klooster is als directeur verantwoordelijk voor de inhoudelijke en zakelijke koers van Arcam. Met het 5D ExpoLab geeft zij leiding aan een reeks experimenten over hoe open data, digitale tools en maquettes een ontwerpinstrument kunnen zijn in het ontwerpen en bediscussiëren van toekomstige ontwerpopgaven. Als voorzitter van de stichting Lokale Architectuur Initiatieven (cOLA) werkt ze samen met AiR (Rotterdam), ABC (Haarlem), het Instituut Rijksbouwmeester (Francesco Veenstra), Architectuur Lokaal (Cilly Jansen) en een groeiend netwerk van lokale architectuurinitiatieven, aan een slagkrachtiger, landelijk architectuurnetwerk. In Pakhuis de Zwijger presenteert zij Architecture Now, over actuele thema’s in de architectuur. Ook is zij de auteur van Reactivate! Vernieuwers van de Nederlandse architectuur.

Veronique Aicha Achoui
Spreker

Veronique is national coordinator of RESCALED Netherlands. With a background in social psychology, she has been working in the sector of criminal justice reform for more than ten years. Veronique previously worked in Balkan countries Albania, Kosovo and North-Macedonia for human rights organization Netherlands Helsinki Committee within the criminal justice system, was chair of the Dutch branch of European Prison Education Association and now works for Restorative Justice Netherlands, an organization working on restorative justice and transformative justice.

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