Design Thinking for Prison Industries: Exchanging design tools, methods and processes with prisons in London and Ahmedabad to build inmate resilience

在未来的城市中，设计可以通过开发工具和技术来帮助解决累犯问题，通过将监狱行业重塑为整体的“创意中心”，使囚犯在出狱后更好地找到就业机会。在世界各地，囚犯经常为监狱工业工作，以保持忙碌，赚取一些收入并学习可能导致未来就业机会的新技能，但监狱工业很少关注创造性思维过程，这些过程有助于教育囚犯在城市高度竞争和变化的工作场所中变得更有弹性，因为边缘化群体对就业的期望往往得不到满足。大量的人找不到合法的工作，因此走上了犯罪的道路。这个项目旨在帮助打破这种循环。在大多数监狱中，“教育”和“工作”经历是分开的，是分开提供的；这个项目旨在创新一种新方法。它将探索与监狱行业的设计合作是否以及如何提供与难以接触的囚犯联系的新机会。还应利用设计来解决目前在提高囚犯就业能力方面存在的“职业”和“教育”方法之间的差距。该项目将引入与“设计思维”相关的分析方法（Kimbell， 2009年，2011年），以易于理解和可视化的方式进入职业监狱行业活动，这样囚犯就可以在实用的职业环境中学习，从而产生一个实验性的防袋盗窃设计或配件。目前正在提议的这种“Makeright”产品——一个由DACRC在两座城市创建的标签——将让囚犯共同设计和制造产品，以保护潜在的受害者免受犯罪侵害。最终实现一种“恢复性司法”，帮助他人避免犯罪，或许还能为监狱创造急需的收入来源。务实的思考/制作方法可能适合某些囚犯的学习风格。其目的是为囚犯开发和测试新的机会，让他们参与传统的监狱行业活动，通过设计防盗袋或配件，使他们学习额外的技能（如改善沟通、协作、系统推理和同理心）。这些技能可以通过一种实验性的方法来实现，即向伦敦和艾哈迈达巴德的囚犯教授“设计思维”，这些囚犯与Makeright的产品系列有关。位于中央圣马丁大学的反犯罪设计研究中心（DACRC）的洛林·甘曼教授和亚当·索普教授将与伦敦旺兹沃斯HMP合作，领导这个项目。他们将与国家设计研究所的Praveen Nahar博士、创意作家Aliya curally以及艾哈迈达巴德的Sabarmati监狱合作，测试DACRC生成的创意研究材料/设计简报，观察它们是否有效，并撰写报告。为了创建项目的协议，团队将与伦敦和艾哈迈达巴德监狱内外的许多利益相关者进行磋商，以确保创意材料“适合目的”。在这里，我们也希望了解我们的创造性投入是否可以找到新的方法来提高伦敦和艾哈迈达巴德监狱行业的运营能力，从而更好地为囚犯在寻找就业或自主创业机会时提供外部服务。此外，研究是否有可能将监狱工业重新定位为“创意中心”，以发展/培育新的就业技能和机会，从而建立监狱的创新能力。为了分享我们从项目中获得的经验，我们的团队希望创造出多样化的成果，包括向政府、利益相关者和学者做报告，讨论我们对监狱行业和Makeright标签的做法是否能增强韧性，并对囚犯的经历产生积极影响（或“打开盒子”）。

In future cities, design can make a contribution by developing tools and techniques that will help address recidivism by reframing prison industries as holistic 'creative hubs' that could better equip inmates to find employment opportunities when they are released from prison. Across the world inmates often work for prison industries to keep busy, earn some income and learn new skills that may lead to future employment opportunities, but prison industries rarely focus on creative thinking processes that help educate prisoners to become more resilient in the highly competitive and changing work places of the city where expectations of employment are often not met amongst marginalised groups, who in huge numbers fail to find legitimate employment and thus resort to crime. This project aims to help break that cycle. In most prisons 'educational' and 'work' experiences are disconnected, and delivered separately; this project aims to innovate a new approach. It will explore if and how design engagement with prison industries may offer new opportunities to connect with hard to reach prisoners. Also to draw on design to address the gap that currently exists between 'vocational' and 'educational' approaches to increasing employability amongst prisoners. The project will introduce analytical approaches associated with 'design-thinking' (Kimbell, 2009, 2011) in accessible and visual ways into vocational prison industry activities, so that inmate learning can occur in pragmatic vocational contexts, producing a trial anti bag theft design or accessory. This 'Makeright' product currently being proposed - a label to be created by DACRC in both cities - will engage inmates in co-designing and making products to protect potential victims from crime. Ultimately to deliver a form of 'restorative justice' by helping others avoid crime and perhaps also generating a much needed income stream for prisons.A pragmatic approach to thinking/making may suit some inmate learning styles. The aim is to develop and test new opportunities for prisoners to engage in traditional prison industry activities empowering them to learn additional skills (such as improved communication, collaboration, systemic reasoning and empathy) via the design of an anti theft bag or accessory. These skills may be achieved via an experimental approach to teaching 'design-thinking' to inmates linked to prisoner engagement with the Makeright product range both in London and Ahmedabad. Prof Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe of the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) at Central Saint Martins will work in partnership with HMP Wandsworth, London and will lead the project. They will collaborate with Dr. Praveen Nahar of the National Institute of Design, Creative Writer Aliya Curmally and with Sabarmati Jail, in Ahmedabad to test the creative research materials/design brief generated by DACRC, and observe whether or not they have efficacy, and to write up.In order to create the protocols for the project, the teams will consult with many stakeholders inside and outside of prison both in London and Ahmedabad to ensure creative materials are 'fit for purpose'. Here we wish to also understand whether or not our creative input can find new ways to improve the operational capacity of prison industries both in London and Ahmedabad, and thus serve inmates better in the outside world when seeking employment or self created enterprise opportunities. Also to find out whether it is possible to build the innovative capacity of prisons by beginning to reframe prison industries as a location of a 'creative hub' where new employment skills and opportunities can be developed/ fostered. To share our learning from the project the team anticipate creating diverse outputs including presentations to government, stakeholders and academics that discuss whether our approach to prison industries and the Makeright label build resilience and positively impact (or "unbox") on inmate experience.