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DJDS in Governing

7 August 2025 — Design, Lifestyle, Mission Driven

Deanna Van Buren, Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces published an op-ed for Governing. Van Buren highlights proposed solutions for repurposing prisons and transforming them into thriving communities.

Sourhouse in The New York Times

10 July 2025 — Art, Design, Lifestyle, Online Culture, Tech

Erik Fabian, Co-founder of Sourhouse, spoke to The New York Times about navigating tariff uncertainity as a small business.

DJDS in Design Milk

25 June 2025 — Design, Mission Driven

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces was featured in Design Milk for their collaboration with Formr on the Healing Forest Table Collection.

DJDS in ABC7

6 June 2025 — Art, Design, Mission Driven

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Deanna Van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces went on ABC7 to talk about the Healing Forest Tables, where every purchase creates ripples of change.

Jeff Speck on NPR, podcasts

31 March 2023 — Design, Mission Driven

Jeff Speck’s timely Walkable City – 10th Anniversary Edition, PKPR has booked interviews across leading local NPR stations and podcasts.

Jeff Speck in The Hill

11 February 2023 — Design

In an op-ed published in The Hill today, Walkable City author Jeff reviews Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s new Safer Streets program.

DJDS in Shondaland

10 February 2022 — Design

Deanna Van Buren, the founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, is profiled today in Shondaland as part of their Black History Now series.

DJDS in Bloomberg CityLab

9 November 2021 — Design

Bloomberg CityLab’s Zach Mortice talked to DJDS’s Deanna Van Buren about the challenges of transforming closed jails into spaces that benefit communities.

Deanna Van Buren on WNYC

15 October 2020 — Design

Deanna Van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces discusses how architects are taking the lead in building alternatives to prisons.

DJDS in Ms. + Fast Company

10 July 2020 — Design

As the debate grows for defunding police and shifting financing, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is working toward a world without prisons.

DJDS in Fast Company

15 June 2020 — Design

Check out the story in Fast Company today: This Atlanta jail will transform into a center for justice and equity.

ESI Design in Next City

7 May 2020 — Design

Next City takes a close look at how PNC Bank tapped ESI Design to transform a former dry cleaners in Cleveland into a thriving community hub.

DJDS TED Talk

30 October 2019 — Design

PKPR has secured a series of profiles looking at how Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is using design to end mass incarceration.

DJDS in Bloomberg, AD

5 September 2019 — Design

In 2017, PKPR client Deanna Van Buren delivered a TED Talk – What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like— that has been viewed more than one million times.

ESI in Engadget, Designboom

31 January 2018 — Art, Design

Take a look at how ESI Design reimagines the traditional office lobby by using algorithms to create trippy art that is wowing workers.