Local Cultures – Global Spaces
Abstract
At the cusp of investing in a $1 billion new jail for Hawai’i, the state’s Department of Public Safety, soon-to-be Department of Corrections of Rehabilitation, contracted the University of Hawai’i Community Design Center to engage stakeholders and community members to re-envision new models for the new jail and a community-based continuum of care. This paper will share the multi-disciplinary and engaged approach to reducing cycles of houselessness, joblessness, substance abuse, trauma, and incarceration that disproportionately impact the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities in the state. Through over 100 talk-stories, workshops, cultural advisory group sessions, and an interagency symposium entitled “Breaking Cycles,” gathering local and global perspectives related to prevention, diversion, corrections, and re-entry, the work, still in progress, reflects one approach to the transformation of overlapping systems of justice and care.
Cathi Ho Schar, FAIA is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa School of Architecture, and the director of the University of Hawai’i Community Design Center. Born and raised in Hawai’i, her work operates at the intersection of government, community, and university stakeholders to facilitate system-wide change through teaching, research, and outreach. In 2021, Cathi was elevated into the AIA College of Fellows. She currently serves as the president-elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Thursday 7th December, 2023