Deanna Van Buren
“With the movement toward decarceration set in motion, we will
need to address a series of pressing issues, including the planning
and building of infrastructure, such as housing, in underinvested
communities to which citizens are returning; the need to cultivate
restorative reinvestments in these communities; and the adaptive
reuse of defunct and vacant criminal justice infrastructure in our
city centers and rural lands.”
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Deanna Van Buren is the cofounder and design director of Designing Justice + Designing Space, a firm that addresses architecture in the carceral state, combining ideas on prison abolition and racial justice. Van Buren’s work envisions a future without the prison system. Through this work, she has been the only architect awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship.
Deanna Van Buren is the cofounder and design director of Designing Justice + Designing Space, a firm that addresses architecture in the carceral state, combining ideas on prison abolition and racial justice. Van Buren’s work envisions a future without the prison system. Through this work, she has been the only architect awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship.
BORN
Contemporary
Contemporary
DESCENT
American / African American
American / African American
DISCIPLINE
Activist / Artist / Architect