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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

    Anna Winston | 19 February 2016 | 2 comments
  • 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

    Alice Morby | 27 January 2016 | 27 comments
  • Suisse seeks funding for folding emergency shelter prototype

    Scottish design agency Suisse is raising funds to develop its RD-Shelter prototype, which could be rapidly deployed to house people displaced by war or natural disasters. More

    Emma Tucker | 11 January 2016 | 1 comment
  • SHoP designs schools for earthquake-ravaged areas of Nepal

    SHoP Architects has partnered with two nonprofit organisations to rebuild 50 public schools in areas of Nepal that were devastated by the April 2015 earthquake (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 23 December 2015 | 2 comments
  • 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

    Emma Tucker | 18 December 2015 | 4 comments
  • 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

    Jessica Mairs | 30 November 2015 | 10 comments
  • New Pinterest board: humanitarian architecture

    Refugee camps are the "cities of tomorrow", according to one of the world's leading aid experts. Explore more approaches to humanitarian architecture on our new Pinterest board, including Ikea's "unusually sensitive" flat-pack shelters and an earthquake-resistant school in Thailand.

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    Trudie Carter | 29 November 2015 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Talia Radford | 23 November 2015 | 58 comments
  • 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

    Emma Tucker | 16 November 2015 | 2 comments
  • Nendo's MINIM+AID kit contains emergency supplies for earthquake victims

    Japanese studio Nendo has designed a minimal emergency kit for those affected by earthquakes, containing a whistle, radio, raincoat, lantern, water container and multipurpose case in a slender tube (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 12 November 2015 | 2 comments
  • Sheltersuit coat doubles as a sleeping bag for the homeless

    Dutch Design Week 2015: fashion designer Bas Timmer has used abandoned tents to create jackets that turn into waterproof sleeping bags for homeless people. More

    Emma Tucker | 9 November 2015 | 22 comments
  • Jun Sekino replaces earthquake-damaged school in Thailand with stilted classrooms

    Bangkok-based architect Jun Sekino designed these elevated classrooms in northern Thailand in response to a severe earthquake, which destroyed the school's original building (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 3 November 2015 | 3 comments
  • Pim van der Mijl designs "living room" to bring refugees and locals together

    Dutch Design Week 2015: 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

    Emma Tucker | 29 October 2015 | 9 comments
  • Earthquake-resistant school in Thailand raised up on stilts by Vin Varavarn Architects

    Built in the wake of an earthquake, this secondary school in northern Thailand by Vin Varavarn Architects is raised above the ground on metal stilts (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 28 October 2015 | 8 comments
  • Design Academy Eindhoven students "see crisis in the world and respond to it"

    Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven has undergone a "paradigm shift" with students now more interested in responding to real-world problems such as Europe's refugee crisis than making beautiful objects for collectors, according to creative director Thomas Widdershoven. More

    Marcus Fairs | 21 October 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Annabelle Selldorf designs new primary school for rural Zambia

    A New York-based nonprofit organisation has commissioned Selldorf Architects to design an elementary school for a remote village in southern Zambia. More

    Jenna McKnight | 6 October 2015 | 1 comment
  • Rural Urban Framework awarded Curry Stone Design Prize at Chicago Architecture Biennial

    Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Hong Kong design and research group Rural Urban Framework has been awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize for humanitarian architecture (+ slideshow). More

    Alan G Brake | 1 October 2015 | 4 comments
  • Fairphone launches second edition of its ethical smartphone

    London Design Festival 2015: Amsterdam tech company Fairphone has launched a new version of its ethically produced smartphone. More

    Emma Tucker | 29 September 2015 | 1 comment
  • US firm announces plans to open "the Bauhaus of Africa"

    MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie). More

    Jenna McKnight | 24 September 2015 | 1 comment
  • Layer redesigns the charity collection box for Maggie's

    Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer has created a new ergonomically-shaped change box with a tilted head for UK cancer charity Maggie's. More

    Emma Tucker | 24 September 2015 | 9 comments
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