Temporary urban structures such as refugee camps have a huge potential for exploration with regard to spatial research. How is the built environment perceived? How can it make a difference? Does it guide behavioral choices? What interventions have the inhabitants made to territorialize their habitat? What interventions did they make before they moved to a refugee camp to feel at home in a space?
"It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so." (Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities)
