The Danish Approach: How Architecture Can Promote Normalization (PID020)

1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT, 25 April 2024 ‐ 45 mins

Room: Meeting Room 9

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This session presents knowledge from built and ongoing architectural projects that portrays how in Denmark, Scandinavia, normalization is used as a key design parameter. The intention is to show how this parameter promotes humane corrections that strengthens the foundation for rehabilitation and resocialization in Denmark.

Moderator

Stephen Carter

Executive Vice President, CGL Companies, United States

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Speakers

Jonas Hviid Mønster

Partner, Head Business and Process Development, Alex Poulsen Architects, Denmark

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Stephen Carter

Executive Vice President, CGL Companies, United States

Stephen Carter is the Founder and Executive Vice President of CGL. Mr. Carter is personally involved in technical studies in the areas of needs assessment, operational and architectural programming, design review, program management, and policy evaluation, among others. In the area of international justice, Mr. Carter has advised the Governments of Argentina, Australia, Aruba, Bermuda, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Peru, United Kingdom, Romania, United Arab Emirates, the Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Georgia, Singapore, Trinidad Tobago, and Venezuela.

Mr. Carter was a founding Board Member, and past Treasurer of the International Corrections and Prisons Association. He has served as Chairman of the American Correctional Association Facility Design Committee, as Chairman of the ACA Exemplary Practices Council, and was Chairman of the ICPA Planning and Design Network. Mr. Carter writes a regular column on trends in corrections for the Correctional News periodical and is a frequent contributor to the AIA Knowledge Communities periodicals. He continues to serve as a guest speaker or lecturer in a variety of academic, professional, and international forums.

Mr. Carter received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Clemson University and his master’s degree in urban design and planning from the Architectural Association, London, England. Additional post-graduate studies were completed in Economics at the London School of Economics, in Transportation Planning at Imperial College, and in Sociology at the University of South Carolina.

Jonas Hviid Mønster

Partner, Head Business and Process Development, Alex Poulsen Architects, Denmark

Since 2016, Jonas has been a partner and CEO at Alex Poulsen Architects.
He leads and coordinates the studio’s portfolio of tasks, which includes tasks in connection with ongoing framework agreements and tasks for public authorities as well as for private builders. Jonas is usually found at the helm of the good cooperation between the client, users, advisers, and other parties – which is highly valued at the design studio. As an experienced client advisor and building consultant, on several complex projects with a high degree of user involvement and stakeholder management, Jonas finds his primary strengths in facilitating user involvement processes, preparing specifications of requirements, developing early-stage planning and scrutinize tender processes. In his work, Jonas ensures high quality, an open and accessible process, and the feeling of ownership across a project's stakeholders.
Depending on which role and context Jonas is part of in the building process, he has the ability to adapt his work from dealing with overall and strategic questions on one hand, and to maintaining specific technical solutions on the other – this all facilitated by his professional background as a constructing architect.
Jonas has furthermore experience in conducting market analyses for public developers, including in collaboration with the Danish Economic and Financial Services Authority. The aim of the market analysis has been to uncover the market's reaction to price and quality levels, to identify the most advantageous form of contract on specific task types.
As the secondary speaker of this session, Jonas will contribute with in-depth knowledge and applied practice of both sustainable planning and humane correction facilities – in relation to innovation in the built environment of prison infrastructure.