Response to prompt for mappingsocialdesign.org
The prompt “I can’t get out of the house to get what I need” would best be served as a provocation expressed through a familiar object re-coded through a critical representational space in the hopes to call into question the neoliberal social imagination around wellness, correctional facilities, and the city.
As an arena of speculation we used a design object, the ‘community survey’. The survey becomes a speculative vehicle from which inmates speak and represent, not only about the Los Angeles River but about their condition. The information was filled using comments from people participating in a Vision Plan process for the L.A. River and reviews of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility from Yelp, a website that helps people find local businesses through peer reviews.
