IPIC 2024

Innovative Prisons Infrastructure Conference 

24-26 April 2024, Istanbul, Türkiye

 
Use this form to send your abstract for the Innovative Prisons Infrastructure Conference - IPIC2024. Submit before 19th November 2023.
 
Prior to submitting please ensure that you have read the full Call for Papers and Guidelines.
 
This form should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. We recommend that you first create your text in Word and copy/paste the details - this will guard against you losing any data in the event of a submission error.
 
STEP 1: PRIMARY SPEAKER DETAILS
 

STEP 2: CO-SPEAKER #1 DETAILS
You may have up to two co-speakers on your presentation. If this is not applicable please skip this section and go to Step 3.
 
CO-SPEAKER #2 DETAILS
STEP 3: YOUR ABSTRACT DETAILS
 
Track 1. Operational-led Design, Providing Design Solutions that Support Improvements in Program and/or Service Delivery Outcomes.
Under Track One, we are looking for papers on innovative design solutions that can help improve, or have assisted the delivery of, programs and services, and papers that consider how operations can be enhanced or restricted by design and infrastructure.
  
Track 2. Where and How to Invest Resources for Change.
Under Track Two, we are particularly interested in papers that consider the cost of reoffending, the comparison of community-based to carceral environments, and innovative methods for involving people in custody.
 
Track 3. Can Technology Actually Increase Sustainability and Improve Outcomes?
Under Track Three, we are looking for papers that outline available and future uses of technology to improve outcomes and reduce energy consumption, and/or consider the challenges presented by new technologies and how correctional facilities can address these.
 
We also welcome papers that consider how innovation in construction technologies, the use of off-site / modular fabrication, and other innovations (e.g., Generative AI) will impact on future design, construction, and operational practices.
 
Track 4. Creation of Normalised Environments
Under Track Four, we are looking for evidence-based papers that link the benefits of designing more humane correctional facilities and creating normalised living environments leads to better outcomes.
Elements include access to natural light, fresh air, movable furniture, softer finishes and fixtures, soothing colors, single bedrooms versus double and multiple-occupancy rooms, increased privacy and control over the space, small size housing units and smaller scale facilities, and campus environments, etc
 
STEP 4: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Please add three questions that would be useful to the session moderator for starting discussions.
 
STEP 5: REFERENCES AND SOURCES
 
STEP 6: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
STEP 7: SUBMISSION CONDITIONS