Rethinking a place for change: an architectural interpretation of the incarcerated youth's place for treatment
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Verme, Martina
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The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care
is envisioned to be “a place for change” - giving
individually adapted care and better conditions for
a functioning life of youths in compulsory care.
However, the dual tasks of treating and guarding
present the challenge of developing the physical
environment since it is a key factor for enabling
receptivity to care. Research shows that the physical
environment is linked to negative connotations within
today’s society including stigmatization, negative
self-image, and actions within the youth’s lifeworld,
often resulting in unsuccessful readaptation.
The thesis aims from the youth perspective to rethink
the youth’s place for treatment within compulsory
care. This is done by extracting and clarifying its
role within the organization, at the institutional
site and in the space for care. The project contains
three connected parts. Firstly, applied research of the
youth’s subjective experience of socio-spatial concepts
in relation to being “in place” for care, as well as the
field of Evidence-based healthcare design with a focus
on psychiatry, collecting spatial aspects. Secondly, a
concluded framework with general recommendations
for the development of a treatment facility, which
is then used to present the third part: a final design
proposal applied to a certain institutional site. This
way, the architectural process explores the potential
role of a future treatment facility acting on the border
of the institutional sphere. Both motivational and preventative design methods
carry this exploration resulting in a new treatment
facility that could ease residential facilities with the
intention to provide a clear chain- and centre of care
as a key towards an exit. The project is presented from
four identified spatial perspectives that support the
youth needs, contributing to knowledge development
that supports the incarcerated youth exit process.
The framework also complements the participatory
process, which is currently complex and sensitive to
set up due to an inaccessible user group. Thus, this
becomes one of many investigations developing an
evidence-based starting point for design decisions.
Finally, it informs a preventative approach toward
youth criminality while shifting the prioritization and
presumptions of youth needs within the institutions.
We need to ask ourselves, what does a place for change
really mean for the youths themselves?
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Ämne/nyckelord
Compulsory youth care, Socio-spatial experience, Place for treatment