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  • Beyond Survival: A Safe Space for Rohingya Women and Girls by Rizvi Hassan

    Centre for displaced Rohingya women built from bamboo in Bangladesh

    Architect Rizvi Hassan used bamboo to build a community centre for Rohingya women and girls living in a refugee camp, where they can bathe and access counselling. More

    India Block | 20 May 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Cortex Shelter by Cutwork

    Refugee shelters could be built from concrete fabric in 24 hours

    Cortex Shelter by Cutwork is a concept for a shelter for refugee camps than could be built by adding water to a concrete textile in just 24 hours. More

    India Block | 17 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Instant Windows Reto Togni

    Instant Windows offers quick fix for houses in war zones

    Swiss designer Reto Togni has developed a cling-film-like temporary window to make damaged houses in conflict zones habitable. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 1 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Night Loo provides safe portable toilet for women in refugee camps

    Night Loo is a safe portable toilet for women in refugee camps

    American designer Anna Meddaugh has created a personal urinal that women in refugee camps can use in shelters at night to avoid the threat of sexual violence outside. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 13 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Stackable Playscapes system transforms empty lots into playgrounds

    Two Jordanian architects have devised a modular, easy-to-assemble system of street furniture to bring ad-hoc playgrounds to cities, refugee camps and other environments lacking in public space. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 17 January 2018 | Leave a comment
  • IKEA aims to take 200,000 people out of poverty in massive social sustainability drive

    IKEA is to employ refugees at production centres in Jordan this summer as part of a long-term plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world through social entrepreneurship programmes. More

    Marcus Fairs | 18 April 2017 | 9 comments
  • Community Centre in the Refugee Camp Spinelli Mannheim, Germany by Design build

    Architecture students build latticed-wood community centre in German refugee camp

    Architecture students from Germany's University of Kaiserslautern have built this wooden community centre for a refugee camp in Mannheim, which is fronted by a latticed screen. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 22 February 2017 | 14 comments
  • Humanitarian experts propose turning refugee camps into enterprise zones called "refugee cities"

    Refugee camps should be rebadged as cities and turned into enterprise zones so inhabitants can set up businesses and build their own infrastructure, according to a new report. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 9 December 2016 | 9 comments
  • IKEA Foundation CEO says adapting refugee shelter is "like playing with Lego"

    Better Shelter is the latest IKEA product to be hacked, according to the head of the company's charitable foundation, who told Dezeen the modular refugee cabin is now being used to create doctors' surgeries and schools. More

    Amy Frearson | 24 October 2016 | 1 comment
  • 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

    Marcus Fairs | 5 July 2016 | 2 comments
  • A world of fragile parts, the Victoria and Albert museum exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

    V&A features Sam Jacob's replica refugee shelter in copying exhibition at Venice Biennale

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: scale reproductions of Nefertiti's bust and a shelter used by refugees in Calais' Jungle are among the myriad replicas of cultural artefacts included in a V&A-curated show about the value of copying (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 3 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • MoMA's Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter exhibition considering the issue of security within the refugee crisis

    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

    Dan Howarth | 6 May 2016 | Leave a comment
  • What design can do opinion

    "Treating the refugee crisis as a design problem is problematic"

    Opinion: 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

    Ruben Pater | 21 April 2016 | 9 comments
  • Hex House by Architects for Society refugee crisis housing architecture news

    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

    Jenna McKnight | 14 April 2016 | 9 comments
  • Calais Jungle

    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

    Marcus Fairs | 9 March 2016 | 4 comments
  • Berlin's decommissioned Tempelhof Airport

    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

    Dan Howarth | 26 February 2016 | 21 comments
  • Alex McDowell

    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

    Marcus Fairs | 23 February 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Steve Jobs mural by Banksy

    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
  • Elemental Monterrey by Elemental

    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
  • 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
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