Architecture, Courts and Communication – From Temples of the Law to Assemblages of Justice?

A discussion of work in progress by Richard Mohr, Legal Intersections Research Centre, Univ. of Wollongong, Australia, and Patrícia Branco, Centre for Social Studies (CES), Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal.

Also with Francesco Contini, Research Institute on Judicial Systems (IRSIG - CNR) Bologna, Italy, and Gar Yein Ng, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Patrícia Branco & Richard Mohr will discuss current research into the new architectures of justice. Law and architecture are very different means of communication that constitute the conditions of each others’ efficacy in courts and, beyond courts, in civil society, regulation of life, and the institution of the social.

Courts have moved from relying exclusively on law and the judge, to an assemblage of bureaucratic, therapeutic, legal and informatic networks. The conditions of access to justice have changed accordingly. How do architectural forms relate to these new social, legal and political requirements?

RSVP by Friday, 19 June (Leigh.Yetter (at) mcgill.ca ).

Presented by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.