towards integration

If humanitarian agencies invested in providing refugees with freedom to move, work and remain in the country of asylum (all the things that camps prevent), refugees could actually become a benefit to the host society and economy.

temporary design

If temporarity was a feasible approach to the problems of migration, then it could be interesting to observe temporary settlements in other contexts and their aim at self sufficiency (waste, energy, traffic and economy).

permanent transition

With global migration and millions collectively fleeing economical, political, social and natural disaster, should we look to Archigram's walking cities, consider options as freedom ships, or embrace temporarity?

diasporic dwelling

Diaspora (ancient Greek: dispersal of population through colonization), while it has taken on a negative connotation of trauma, exile, banishment; has also taken a positive connotation of a relation between migrants' homelands and their new places of settlement.

refugee research

Designing for all humanity is a 'thing of modernism' and nowadays capitalism and sales dictate the mindset of the spatial designer. Social awareness and community spirit are hard to find in contemporary cities, especially when it comes to allowing outsiders in. Borders and states have caused many to fall between the cracks of this civilization; is it the job of the spatial designer to include them in formal planning?

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the game

Understanding complexities of a country continuously dealing with natural, economical and political disaster, Urban Emergencies Bangladesh designed a game to aid in communicating these.

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