Ai Weiwei creates lotus-like installation from refugee life jackets
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has arranged 1,005 life jackets from refugees into the shape of lotus flowers for a floating installation in Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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UNHCR teams up with MIT's D-Lab to overhaul "very top-down" refugee design strategy
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is working with MIT's D-Lab to develop design strategies that enable refugees to solve their own problems rather than relying on solutions provided by aid agencies (+ interview). More
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What Design Can Do announces winners of Refugee Challenge
Proposals for a travelling kitchen and a website that enables refugees to sell their own photographs are included in the five winning projects of the first What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge. More
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What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge unveils 25 shortlisted projects to improve refugee's lives
Dezeen promotion: 25 designs that offer a range of solutions for improving the lives of refugees living in urban environments have been shortlisted for the first What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge (+ slideshow). More
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MoMA's Insecurities exhibition to address the global refugee crisis
New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced an exhibition of projects that aim to tackle the issue of shelter for migration and global refugee emergencies. More
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"Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds"
Opinion: designers can't save the world, but even the smallest intervention could help improve the conditions faced by the unprecedented number of refugees flooding Europe, says Richard van der Laken. More
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"Treating the refugee crisis as a design problem is problematic"
Opinion:Â initiatives like What Design Can Do's Refugee Challenge encourage designers to believe that they can solve international problems that go far beyond their reach, says Ruben Pater. More
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Architects for Society designs low-cost hexagonal shelters for refugees
Minnesota-based Architects for Society has developed a prototype for a rapidly deployable dwelling that could house victims of catastrophic events (+ slideshow). More
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Camps like the Jungle are "an important resource for all urban professionals to study"
Architects and planners should study refugee camps like the Jungle in France, according to architecture undergraduate Sophie Flinder, who has completed a dissertation on the way the camp has become a fully functioning town with its own culture (+ transcript). More
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"The architectural community cannot remain apathetic to Calais' Jungle and the refugee crisis"
Opinion: last week, local authorities in Calais began destroying sections of the Jungle – the sprawling refugee and migrant camp that has become a symbol of Europe's immigration crisis. It's time that architects stepped in to help provide a solution that actually works, says architect Jeannie S Lee, who visited the camp with her London studio EVA. More
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Berlin's Tempelhof Airport to become Germany's largest refugee camp
Berlin is to extend the refugee camp at the decommissioned Tempelhof Airport, making room for 7,000 people in and around one of the German capital's most iconic buildings. More
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Minority Report designer Alex McDowell applies filmmaking techniques to refugee-camp design
A design technique used on feature films including Minority Report, The Terminal and Man of Steel is being applied to the development of future cities in the face of huge refugee migrations. More
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What Design Can Do launches design challenge to create solutions for refugees
Dutch organisation What Design Can Do has launched an international competition to help find solutions for refugees facing a wide variety of challenges. More
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RCA students design wearable dwelling for Syrian refugees
A group of students from London's Royal College of Art have designed a prototype coat for refugees that transforms into a tent or a sleeping bag (+ movie). More
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Banksy adds Steve Jobs mural to refugee camp made from Dismaland remains
Banksy has graffitied an image of Apple founder Steve Jobs as a refugee at a camp in Calais, which was added to with materials left over from the street artist's temporary theme park Dismaland. More
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Refugee tents are a waste of money, says Alejandro Aravena
Tents are a quick response to the need for emergency shelter, but "it's money that melts" says Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 director Alejandro Aravena. More
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Refugee camps are the "cities of tomorrow", says humanitarian-aid expert
Governments should stop thinking about refugee camps as temporary places, says Kilian Kleinschmidt, one of the world's leading authorities on humanitarian aid (+ interview). More
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Enzo Mari grants Berlin refugee organisation rights to reproduce his furniture
Modernist designer Enzo Mari has given Berlin-based CUCULA the rights to redesign and sell his Autoprogettazione furniture to raise funds for its refugee support programme (+ slideshow). More
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Pim van der Mijl designs "living room" to bring refugees and locals together
Dutch Design Week 2015:Â Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pim van der Mijl's De Voorkamer project proposes a communal meeting space to help break down barriers between refugees and local communities in Holland (+ slideshow). More
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Interactive online documentary Refugee Republic awarded twice at Dutch Design Awards 2015
Dutch Design Week 2015: agency Submarine Channel won two prizes at this year's Dutch Design Awards with its web narrative that presents life and experiences in a refugee camp. More
