APAC
The APAC project was developed for a fairly revolutionary penitentiary system. Let's be honest, the prisonal system does not work. Overcrowded prisons, high levels of relapsing, we must start thinking about other ways. If we take into account, there is a large percentage of inmates who after serving sentence, go back to the crime world, wich means, imprisonment has not solved the their criminal mentality. This project, carried out in collaboration with Acabdemia Ubuntu, is a controversial idea to some, and innovative to others. The idea is already being applied in some penitentiaries of Brazil and consists on a prison without guards. Who will be responsible then? The inmates themselves.The prision is divided by 4 phases, and each phase will be responsible by the fase below. The first being the inmates still with a high delinquent mentality, and the last one, the inmates who have been incarcerated for longer, so most of them will be more mindfull of their actions. Responsibility generates responsibility. And if we withdraw the guards, we will be giving a vow of faith to the inmates, which generate responsabily to educate the inmates of the stages below, giving them time and space for a greater reflection upon their own actions, and the reasons they where putt in jail in the first time. So when the prisoner's sentence ends, they will leave with a different mentality, and not the classic relapsing mentality, that only ends up causing them to be repeat their behavioural patterns. It is exactly this message that I wanted to convey in the design of this logo. 4 letters, 4 phases, each phase less "noisy", with less criminal mentality. If the results are as expected, this system can be applied in other countries, making us look in a different prespective of how are we solving this problem. If we treat inmates like delinquents, they will continue to behave like that, but if we treat them as responsible human beings, and able to make the difference, they will behave like a responsible human beings.
