Undoing Time
Undoing Time is an abolitionist planner and website that seeks to provide a slow, methodological approach towards how time operates in carceral spaces, using HMP Hollway as its starting point. It reflects on how timelines are determined for criminalised individuals, how time is weaponised as a form of punishment, and on methods of claiming or reclaiming time practiced by incarcerated people. In thinking about Holloway Prison as a site that structures and allocates time — not just in the past, but also in the present and future — it unravels the different temporalities that are woven into the carceral experience, in order to provide diagnostic and interventionist tools. If duration is increasingly used against people, Undoing Time proposes to use duration back against the prison state.
Undoing Time was produced by the Carceral Time Working Group, a collective of 20 students at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths. In the work, the group adopts a collective voice, in reflection of their approach to the project as an exercise – amongst other things – in collective imagining.