The Cell Furniture project sees product design students at London's Central Saint Martins create flexible furniture for prisons, which will be made by the inmates. Central Saint Martins students design prison cell furniture.Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. Prison clad in perforated weathering steel has pastel-coloured sports court.'Stop working on spaces which disproportionately impact African Americans' says architectural designer Michael FordДЄrchitects should stop designing jails and prisons, which are representations of systemic racism in the US, if they want to really impact the fight for racial equality, says Michael Ford.Readers are debating Michael Ford's statement that architects who want to really impact the fight for racial equality should stop designing jails and prisons, and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. 'Architects aren't going to change it all but they can certainly help' say commenters.'A whole lot has to get built to end mass incarceration' says Deanna van BurenДЄrchitects need to be designing new building typologies to replace prisons that 'were built to hurt people', says architect Deanna van Buren, who established her non-profit firm to bring an end to mass incarceration in America.

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