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New: Housing Research and Education Center

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:49:59 +0000

New: Housing Research and Education Center Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 01/20/2024 - 13:49

A collective and collaborative center for research and education to address housing affordability and accessibility

The Housing Research and Education Center is a collaboration between the ��-Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative and the Community Engagement, Design, and Research Center (CEDaR). The center works to amplify community voices, support agencies working on housing provision, inform policy, and build relationships to strengthen housing access.

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BRIDGING THE GAP: EXPLORING COMMUNITY MAPPING OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:27:08 +0000

BRIDGING THE GAP: EXPLORING COMMUNITY MAPPING OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/30/2023 - 10:27

Monday 4 September 2023 8:30 - 1:00 am

Communities are the start of everything - triggering positive change is only possible by community-centered approaches.This is also increasingly recognized by data collection methods and even more by initiatives that try to link data to programs. The first event of the UTC series on Data and Slums is dedicated to advances in community mapping of informal settlements.

The event aims to highlight the increasing importance of technologies and methodologies for mapping informal settlements worldwide by emphasizing that the most reliable source of data about informal settlements lies within the communities themselves. Four case studies provide contextualized insights on recent advancements and persisting challenges. The interested audience is also invited to join us for a round table discussion with invited experts to answer some questions they might have. In a month's time, we will continue the series with GIS-based approaches.

8.30 am - 9:15 am: Introduction and Case Study Presentation
9:15 pm - 10:00 pm: Round Table Discussion

Register HERE

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Developing tools to reveal the urban expansion of informal settlements. a 30-city study.

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:45:08 +0000

Developing tools to reveal the urban expansion of informal settlements. a 30-city study. Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/13/2023 - 10:45

This project hopes to increase the visibility of the marginal population globally by developing tools that help to see how informal settlements change over time globally. Students will develop updated and historical maps of informal settlement locations in 30 cities, upload newly created data in the Atlas of Infomality, and create data to train a temporal training model for automatizing of identification of informal settlements using historical imagery. The selected student team will be housed within the community of undergraduate researchers in the center for Community Engagement, Design, and Research (CEDaR). In addition, students will participate in training, workshops, and resulting publications.

Research assistantship

Research assistants (RA) participate in research design, data collection, analysis, writing, and presenting. As a CEDaR RA, you will gain mentorship in theories and methods of community-engaged design, while tackling social and environmental issues.

Contact Nathan Paul Jones, Internship Director. nathan.p.jones@colorado.edu

This research project is sponsored by an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant from the Office of undergraduate education

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Collaboration with the city of Cheraw in their Community Complex

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 20:26:56 +0000

Collaboration with the city of Cheraw in their Community Complex Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/03/2023 - 13:26

Developing the blank block in Cheraw, CO, is a significant move. Regarding the site’s location and size, it’s effortless to see the potential. An empty block covered in dirt could be a fascinating place and center for gathering people and offer a great and safe experience to children, families, and individuals. The project has a few key elements; first, the Pavilion. It becomes the center for gathering people and offering a good time to them. The Pavilion has solar panels on the roof and provides the electricity needed for illuminating the park. The second key element is the garden through the site, attached to the water splash. The garden’s water comes from the water splash, is recycled, and goes back to the water splash. This garden creates a fascinating walkway, pleasant water noise, and cooler air temperature during hot days in summer. Finally, the project offers several other services to the community, such as a basketball court, soccer field, parking spaces, gathering spaces, etc.

Community Engagement, Design, and Research Center(CEDaR)
University of Colorado Boulder

Drawn by CEDaR research assistant Amin Shafaeian

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"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:32:48 +0000

"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/05/2022 - 18:32

"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change

December 2022

Engineering Center

South Lobby

University of Colorado Boulder

Climate change disproportionately burdens the most vulnerable segments of our society, putting those with the fewest resources at greatest risk. Mass incarceration does the same, destabilizing families and communities, and derailing lives. You may be well aware of this – but have you considered the ways that these two phenomena are entangled?

This installation introduces visitors to the ways that incarceration and climate change intersect in the United States, with each amplifying the harms inflicted by the other. Scholars, activists, and the general public are only just beginning to contend with the urgent implications of these intersections and the feedback loops they create.

If you visit this exhibit, we ask you to keep these things in mind:

+ When we talk about incarcerated people, we are talking about people---human beings with lives, hopes, feelings, and dignity.

+ The U.S. criminal justice system is full of inequity, injustice, and systemic racism. People of color and people from impoverished backgrounds are much more likely to be incarcerated and be given harsher sentences than their white and/or wealthy peers.

+ Mass incarceration touches us all, in ways you may not have considered. We all have a role to play in untangling this vicious cycle.

This project is sponsored by:

The Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC),

the Center for Community Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR)

and in collaboration with:

the Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RISE) Interdisciplinary Research Theme

and the Climate Incarceration Research Collective (CIRCol)

exhibit bibliography

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Bonds, A. (2019). “Race and Ethnicity I: Property, Race, and the Carceral State.” Progress in Human Geography 43 (3): 574-83.

Cacho, L. M. (2012) Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected. New York University Press.

Camp, J. T. (2016). Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State. University of California Press.

Cassidy, K., Griffin, P., & Wray, F. (2020). Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘Less-than-human’ labour landscapes. Progress in Human Geography, 44(6), 1081-1102.

Cowan, K. N., Peterson, M., LeMasters, K., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2022). Overlapping Crises: Climate Disaster Susceptibility and Incarceration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127431

Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.

Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). Random House, Inc.

Gilmore, R. W. (2022). Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso.

Gilmore, R. W. (2007). Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California. University of California Press.

Glade, S., Niles, S., Roudbari, S., Pezzullo, P. C., Dashti, S., Liel, A. B., & Miller, S. L. (2022). Disaster resilience and sustainability of incarceration infrastructures: A review of the literature. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80, 103190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103190

Golembeski, C. A., Dong, K., & Irfan, A. (2021). Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for Greater Transparency, Accountability, and Human Rights Protections. World Medical & Health Policy, 13(1), 69–96. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.382

Gribble, E. C., & Pellow, D. N. (2022). Climate Change and Incarcerated Populations: Confronting Environmental and Climate Injustices Behind Bars. Fordham Urban Law Journal, 49(2). https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2867&context=ulj

Kaba, M. (2021). We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist organizing and transforming justice. Haymarket Books.

Levenson, L. L. (2022). Climate Change and the Threat to U.S. Jails and Prisons. Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 33(2). https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1457&context=elj

Loyd, J. M., Mitchelson, M. L., & Burridge, A. (Eds.). (2012). Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press.

McCauley, E., Eckstrand, K., Desta, B., Bouvier, B., Brockmann, B., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2018). Exploring Healthcare Experiences for Incarcerated Individuals Who Identify as Transgender in a Southern Jail. Transgender Health, 3(1), 34–41. https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2017.0046

McGee, J. A., Greiner, P. T., & Appleton, C. (2021). Locked into Emissions: How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change. Social Currents, 8(4), 326–340. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496520974006

Motanya, N. C., & Valera, P. (2016). Climate Change and Its Impact on the Incarcerated Population: A Descriptive Review. Social Work in Public Health, 31(5), 348–357. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2015.1137513

National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. (2007). Abandoned and abused: Prisoners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Race & Class, 49(1), 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396807080069

Noonan, M. (2016). Mortality in State Prisons, 2001-2014—Statistical Tables (p. 22). U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/msp0114st.pdf

Nowakowski, K. (2013). Landscapes of Toxic Exclusion: Inmate Labour and Electronics Recycling in the United States. In Moran, D., Gill, N., and Conlon, D. (Eds.) Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. Ashgate.

Pellow, D. N. (2021). Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails. Antipode, 53(1), 56–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12569

Pellow, D. N., Austin, M. A., Le, M., McAlpine, S., & Roudebush, A. (2017). Exposing Deliberate Indifference: The Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice in America’s Prisons, Jails, and Concentration Camps. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.envs.d7_gejp-2/files/sitefiles/publication/Exposing%20deliberate%20indifference%20.pdf

Pellow, D. N., Lake, F. R., Wilson, C. A., & Baker, E. J. (2020). Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World: The 2020 Annual Report of the Prison Environmental Justice Project. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/publication/Prison%20EJ%20Project%202020%20Report-compressed.pdf

Pellow, D. N., Vazin, J., Ashby, H., Austin, M. A., Kime, S., & Mcalpine, S. (2018). Environmental Injustice Behind Bars: Toxic Imprisonment in America. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.envs.d7_gejp-2/files/sitefiles/publication/PEJP%20Annual%20Report%202018.pdf

Pellow, D., Vazin, J., Johnson, K., & Austin, M. (2019). Capitalism in Practice: Free Market Influence on Environmental Injustice in America’s Prisons. The Prison Environmental Justice Project. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/publication/GEJP%20Annual%20Report%202019.pdf

Prins, S. J., & Story, B. (2020). Connecting the Dots Between Mass Incarceration, Health Inequity, and Climate Change. American Journal of Public Health, 110(51), 535–536. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305470

Purdum, C., Henry, F., Rucker, S., Williams, D. A., Thomas, R., Dixon, B., & Jacobs, F. (2021). No Justice, No Resilience: Prison Abolition As Disaster Mitigation in an Era of Climate Change. Environmental Justice, 14(6), 418–425. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0020

Purdum, J. C., & Meyer, M. A. (2020). Prisoner Labor Throughout the Life Cycle of Disasters. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 11(3), 296–319. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12191

Savilonis, M. A. (2013). Prisons and disasters [Northeastern University]. https://doi.org/10.17760/d20004879

Shabazz, R. (2015). Spatializing blackness: Architectures of confinement and black masculinity in Chicago. University of Illinois Press.

Skarha, J., Dominick, A., Spangler, K., Dosa, D., Rich, J. D., Savitz, D. A., & Zanobetti, A. (2022). Provision of Air Conditioning and Heat-Related Mortality in Texas Prisons. JAMA Network Open, 5(11), e2239849. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39849

Skarha, J., Peterson, M., Rich, J. D., & Dosa, D. (2020). An Overlooked Crisis: Extreme Temperature Exposures in Incarceration Settings. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S1), S41–S42. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305453

Story, B. (2019) Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. University of Minnesota Press.

Veit, J. (2018). How Anthropogenic Climate Change Exacerbates Vulnerability in Prison Communities: A Critical Environmental Justice Analysis [Humboldt State University]. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1266&context=etd

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"you couldn't get away from it": entanglements of incarceration and climate change

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:32:42 +0000