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March 21, 2007
Living Like a Refugee: Peggy Diggs Takes a Design Problem to Prison
Go to this URL for the entire article and the pictures of what has been created.
Through a partnership with the City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, Diggs made arrangements to meet with a group of 15 men in maximum security at Graterford Prison outside Philadelphia. MAP had been working with these particular prisoners for some years, and when Diggs visited with them in January 2005 she found them eager to participate in her project. She obtained funding from Creative Capital Foundation to "explore notions of design and function of objects we're all familiar with - with materials and expectations we have of them, concrete problem solving and design for particular groups of users."
Posted by lois at March 21, 2007 03:28 PM