Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is a Bay Area-based architecture and real estate development social enterprise working to end mass incarceration by building the infrastructure that addresses its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself. Beyond full architectural services, we have specific expertise in community engagement, evidence-based design research, and designing for peacemaking and reparation.

Our work seeks to counter the societal inequities evident in the dominant architectural models of courthouses and prisons, and we do so through the creation of new prototypes such as peacemaking centers, transitional housing, and mobile villages.