藥劑車

設(shè)計(jì)：Emilie Taylor Welty (教授),Nick Jenisch (項(xiàng)目經(jīng)理),Elizabeth Bateman,Jeremy Baudy, Anna Deeg,Claire Divito,Rebecca Dunn,Adrian Evans,Danelle Martin,Danielle Scheeringa,Bhumika Shirole,Zach Speroni,James Rennert,Dana Ridenour

設(shè)計(jì)如何開啟對話，并作為宣傳和教育的工具？

藥劑車，許多移動(dòng)的裝有藥劑的車，試圖讓我們想象沒有監(jiān)獄的景象。美國有220 萬犯人，約9 萬人無限期單獨(dú)監(jiān)禁。疏離、人性喪失、絕望、迷失方向、偏執(zhí)、自殺意念，單獨(dú)監(jiān)禁帶來的無法彌補(bǔ)，近乎毀滅的影響遠(yuǎn)不止這些。囚犯藥劑車從受大規(guī)模監(jiān)禁荼毒最深的社區(qū)采取植物，轉(zhuǎn)化為藥。藥劑師根據(jù)交談或書信為全美國單獨(dú)監(jiān)禁犯人提供天然藥物、茶、酊劑、蒸汽和藥膏。只有被監(jiān)禁犯人能夠設(shè)計(jì)藥物并分發(fā)給曾經(jīng)破壞過的社區(qū)，反而賦予了他們特別的機(jī)會(huì)來治愈千瘡百孔的社區(qū)。流動(dòng)藥劑師車，或“藥劑車”，是一批倡導(dǎo)監(jiān)獄改革，讓治愈正義在新奧爾良市可見和可及的草藥車。

Apothecarts 由杜蘭建筑學(xué)院的學(xué)生在2020 年秋季設(shè)計(jì)和建造而成。旨在為增加社區(qū)設(shè)計(jì)機(jī)會(huì)，改進(jìn)設(shè)計(jì)過程，培養(yǎng)新一代建筑師創(chuàng)造更公正的世界付出不懈努力。學(xué)術(shù)工作室包括建筑學(xué)學(xué)生團(tuán)隊(duì)與當(dāng)?shù)胤菭I利組織，計(jì)劃、設(shè)計(jì)并制作了一個(gè)有社區(qū)參與的最佳設(shè)計(jì)和實(shí)踐項(xiàng)目。這項(xiàng)行動(dòng)研究包括訪談、區(qū)域?qū)＜医虒W(xué)、觀察和調(diào)查等設(shè)計(jì)階段。設(shè)計(jì)選擇再交由參與過最終多階段反饋循環(huán)或本例中兩個(gè)小的構(gòu)建項(xiàng)目的核心涉眾組指導(dǎo)。Apothecarts 項(xiàng)目著眼于聯(lián)系設(shè)計(jì)、廢除與社會(huì)正義，展示了設(shè)計(jì)影響復(fù)雜社會(huì)問題的無限可能。

How can design start a conversation and serve as tool for advocacy and education?

The Apothecarts are a series of mobile apothecary carts that challenge us to imagine a landscape without prisons.There are 2.2 million incarcerated people in the United States,and of those around 90,000 are subjected to indefinite solitary confinement every day.The devastating,and often irreparable,effects of solitary confinement include,but are not limited to,alienation,dehumanization,despair,disorientation,paranoia,and suicidal ideation.The Prisoner’s Apothecarts are a series of mobile healing units that transform plants from Solitary Gardens into medicine for communities most deeply impacted by the insidious reach of mass incarceration.The apothecary produces natural medicine,tea,tinctures,steams,and salves in conversation (written letters) with folks in solitary confinement across the US.As the medicine is designed by folks who are incarcerated and distributed to affected communities,incarcerated individuals now have a unique opportunity to heal the communities they are often accused of harming.The mobile apothecary carts,or“apothecarts,”are a series of herbal medicine carts that advocate for prison reforms and make healing justice visible and accessible across the City of New Orleans.

The Apothecarts were designed and built during the fall of 2020 by students at Tulane’s School of Architecture.This work is an ongoing effort to expand design access across our community,improve the design process,and prepare a new generation of architects to create a more just world.This academic studio pairs a team of architecture students with a local non-profit to program,design,and fabricate a project that models design excellence and best practices in community engagement.This research is action based and includes interviews,area expert teach-ins,observation,and surveys as part of the project design phase.That research then directs the design options presented to a core group of stakeholders who participate in a multistage feedback loop resulting in a final built project,or in this case two small built projects.The Apothecarts project is focused at the intersection of design,social justice,and abolition and shows the potential of design to impact complex social issues.