Event:

Spaces of Justice: A Symposium on the Future of the Scottish Courthouse
Mackintosh School of Architecture

Event Type:

Conference

Location:

Reid Building 164 Renfrew Street The Glasgow School of Art

Open:

23 Nov 2017
Thursday,
10:00 - 16:30

by invitation

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Professors Peter Robson and Johnny Rodger
November 23, 2017

Spaces of Justice: A Symposium on the Future of the Scottish Courthouse

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This symposium is organised in conjunction with the publication of the book Spaces of Justice: The Architecture of the Scottish Court [i] to take stock and to plan for the future design of the spaces where justice will be enacted in Scotland.

Authors Professors Robson and Rodger ask whether ambitious debate, initiative, programming and commissioning may have been stifled in Scotland by a type of bureaucratic or managerial control?  

This symposium would seek to explore the issues and possibilities for design, commissioning and tendering for new courts in order that an 'ambitious’ programme and engagement of the various bodies and publics involved and affected can initiate a culture of excellence in the planning and design of new courthouses in Scotland.


[i] P. Robson & J. Rodger, Spaces of Justice: The Architecture of the Scottish Court, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison NJ, September 2017.