Tag: Niyi Awofeso
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Disciplinary architecture: prison design and prisoners’ health
Niyi AwofesoPerth, Australia “First we shape our buildings; then they shape us”Winston Churchill, 1943 Creating the built environment, the surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, draws on multiple disciplines, including architecture and law. Prisons and their many variants are built environments whose intended purpose is punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation and incapacitation (Reasons & Kaplan,…
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Kindred paradigms: Community arts and health advocacy in HIV/AIDS activism
Niyi AwofesoAnu RammohanAustralia, Perth Community arts involve an understanding of communities and how art can function as an agent of social change. Community artists employ a broad range of genres and disciplines to reach a wide audience. Defined broadly as the work of communities of people committed to improving their individual and collective circumstances through…