The patchwork studio: home and the new women’s micro-community

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2022-03-30
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Wiebe, Lauren
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As the rate of incarcerated women continues to grow at an unprecedented rate within Manitoba, the lack of resources these marginalized women have access to becomes apparent. Social inequality that occurs in the urban residential area of Winnipeg’s North End will be the focus for this practicum looking at how insufficient resources and neglect leaves specifically women and children vulnerable to social injustice within this community. The topic of this practicum is to challenge an underdeveloped narrative of the design of prison architecture that is currently lacking within the practice of interior design. While there is a substantial amount of resources from outside the field of design on the harm prison architecture places on the people inside it, this practicum project will ultimately address how the present existence of these harmful dystopian structures can be transformed into a utopian future through the abolishment of women's prison institutions specifically within Manitoba. The project will be structured around the development of a new women’s micro-community typology conducted through a gendered utopian theoretical lens revealing how a conceptual utopian centre can disrupt the pattern of the prison system. Ultimately, this newly defined community centre will present a restored identity for marginalized women through an examination of academic literature, contemporary and traditional art and precedent studies to construct a narrative of a new mise-en-scene of a prisonless existence.

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