Interdisciplinary Thinking for Schools: Ethical Dilemmas
Featured illustration for US-based MYP 1, 2 & 3 textbook by Sara Riaz Khan and Dr. Meredith J Harbord about creativity, innovation, ethical design and sustainability.
June 2020
Prison
The illustration reflects on how architecture and morality can become one. Norway’s Halden Prison is designed in a way to encourage rehabilitation of inmates through a friendly and independence-oriented prison exterior and interior, that almost feels like a college dormitory. It questions traditional ideologies of prisons as centres of punishment and seeking retribution from the criminal. While justice is key, prisoner therapy, acknowledgement and coming back into society is also relevant.
It is featured in a US school textbook titled Interdisciplinary Thinking for Schools: Ethical Dilemmas (2020). It teaches the youth about urban design, architecture, society, community, morality and what role design can and should pay in it. The theme of ethical design resonates in every environment in one way or another.