Blueprints of Justice
Time: Oct. 11, 2022, 5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: virtual
Nóra Al Haider (Stanford University)
Oana Stanescu (MIT)
The COVID pandemic punctuated a moment of accelerated change with broad structural repercussions in change-averse areas such as the justice system. In a rare occurrence, legal practitioners opened up the doors to their discipline and invited non-experts for collaboration. The essence of this collaboration boils down to the following question: knowing different disciplines each play a role in the access to justice problem, can an interdisciplinary approach lead to better outcomes, and furthermore, point towards desired futures.
Change at such a fundamental level never happens in isolation. Architecture, legal experts, and students worked together to examine the direct relationship between law and space to tackle pressing real time scenarios put forward by experts. This work, directed by Stanescu and Al Haider spans between 2020-2023 and looks at this intersection in the themes of social justice, human rights and environmental justice.
This presentation is part of the Architecture, Law and Policy Colloquia Series.