药剂车

设计：Emilie Taylor Welty (教授),Nick Jenisch (项目经理),Elizabeth Bateman,Jeremy Baudy, Anna Deeg,Claire Divito,Rebecca Dunn,Adrian Evans,Danelle Martin,Danielle Scheeringa,Bhumika Shirole,Zach Speroni,James Rennert,Dana Ridenour

设计如何开启对话，并作为宣传和教育的工具？

药剂车，许多移动的装有药剂的车，试图让我们想象没有监狱的景象。美国有220 万犯人，约9 万人无限期单独监禁。疏离、人性丧失、绝望、迷失方向、偏执、自杀意念，单独监禁带来的无法弥补，近乎毁灭的影响远不止这些。囚犯药剂车从受大规模监禁荼毒最深的社区采取植物，转化为药。药剂师根据交谈或书信为全美国单独监禁犯人提供天然药物、茶、酊剂、蒸汽和药膏。只有被监禁犯人能够设计药物并分发给曾经破坏过的社区，反而赋予了他们特别的机会来治愈千疮百孔的社区。流动药剂师车，或“药剂车”，是一批倡导监狱改革，让治愈正义在新奥尔良市可见和可及的草药车。

Apothecarts 由杜兰建筑学院的学生在2020 年秋季设计和建造而成。旨在为增加社区设计机会，改进设计过程，培养新一代建筑师创造更公正的世界付出不懈努力。学术工作室包括建筑学学生团队与当地非营利组织，计划、设计并制作了一个有社区参与的最佳设计和实践项目。这项行动研究包括访谈、区域专家教学、观察和调查等设计阶段。设计选择再交由参与过最终多阶段反馈循环或本例中两个小的构建项目的核心涉众组指导。Apothecarts 项目着眼于联系设计、废除与社会正义，展示了设计影响复杂社会问题的无限可能。

How can design start a conversation and serve as tool for advocacy and education?

The Apothecarts are a series of mobile apothecary carts that challenge us to imagine a landscape without prisons.There are 2.2 million incarcerated people in the United States,and of those around 90,000 are subjected to indefinite solitary confinement every day.The devastating,and often irreparable,effects of solitary confinement include,but are not limited to,alienation,dehumanization,despair,disorientation,paranoia,and suicidal ideation.The Prisoner’s Apothecarts are a series of mobile healing units that transform plants from Solitary Gardens into medicine for communities most deeply impacted by the insidious reach of mass incarceration.The apothecary produces natural medicine,tea,tinctures,steams,and salves in conversation (written letters) with folks in solitary confinement across the US.As the medicine is designed by folks who are incarcerated and distributed to affected communities,incarcerated individuals now have a unique opportunity to heal the communities they are often accused of harming.The mobile apothecary carts,or“apothecarts,”are a series of herbal medicine carts that advocate for prison reforms and make healing justice visible and accessible across the City of New Orleans.

The Apothecarts were designed and built during the fall of 2020 by students at Tulane’s School of Architecture.This work is an ongoing effort to expand design access across our community,improve the design process,and prepare a new generation of architects to create a more just world.This academic studio pairs a team of architecture students with a local non-profit to program,design,and fabricate a project that models design excellence and best practices in community engagement.This research is action based and includes interviews,area expert teach-ins,observation,and surveys as part of the project design phase.That research then directs the design options presented to a core group of stakeholders who participate in a multistage feedback loop resulting in a final built project,or in this case two small built projects.The Apothecarts project is focused at the intersection of design,social justice,and abolition and shows the potential of design to impact complex social issues.