I think the Pentridge Prison project was quite intriguing, because from the outset it is really clear that the concept is intriguing, even just superficially, in the sense that we are talking about a place, that used to be a prison, designed to be a place of punishment and unliveable for people, to then be turned into a residential complex, meaning that somewhere, in this period of time  and everyone has all these ideas of what a place was before they were in that place, whether someone has spit there, whether someone used to sleep in this bed, how many people have stepped in these steps. The group, in this realm touch on the extent of the depraved activities that undoubtedly would have occurred in this prison, and this dynamic is extremely peculiar since it is now a livable area, and I personally feel like I’d be uncomfortable with the knowledge that the place where I was living was home to a disproportionate number of depraved deeds.

In terms of where I think this needs to head, I believe a team of people would fund this project if the group is able to reconcile the spectrum of this transformation from prison to living complex, maybe if there were people directly connected with the prisons existence as a prison still maintaining a stake in the prison’s existence as a living complex, these people would be the central characters I’d love to hear about. But I think it needs to stand more on aspects like this, than purely say trying to focus on the conception of change, like simply that, as it stands, this prison has turned into a residential complex. Nonetheless, I think it would be approved and commissioned given these slight expansions.