Zohra Bensemra/REUTERS In November, a newly displaced girl stands outside a tent in the Khazer refugee camp in Iraq. Witman and the designers behind the Refugee Challenge are realistic about the small impact they can have in the context of such an immense problem, but they are also convinced that this is the very reason they should become involved. People need to have the feeling that they are treated and can live as individuals, that they can regain their identities.” The solution, according to Kleinschmidt, is to engage the private sector and envision refugee settlements as cities rather than camps.
Frustrated with the status quo, a growing number of innovative thinkers argue that architecture and design are key in transforming camps into more meaningful and sustainable communities. While refugee camps are located on the territory of host states and should be part and parcel of their legal and economic systems, they are not de facto. But there's a better response to the refugee crisis. “We looked at what would be the best places to have the schools, for example,” says Castel. “If you have people seen simply as a logistic challenge for the next 10, 15, even 20 years, then you are missing opportunities,” he says. One idea to make that happen is to shift towards applying sustainable urbanism principles and practices in the design of refugee camps (Kennedy, Towards a rationalization of the construction of refugee camps, 2004). “If you’re assisted for 20 years, you’re getting everything for free, you’re not part of a sustainable ecosystem. It’s here that Fatima plays with her children. The traditional “storage facility approach” in constructing refugee camps, as Kleinschmidt calls it, should only be used as a response when the need for shelter is actually going to be temporary, like in response to a natural disaster or short-term political upheaval.
By Karrie Jacobs.
The design also provided space for a garden in each compound.Named an Innovation Fellow by the UNHCR in 2014, Adjahossou is now bringing his expertise to Kenya, where he is working on a project (Kalobeyei Social Economic Integrated Development Program–KSEDP) that goes even farther than the one in Ethiopia.
“[In Azraq], we applied the same standards we always had.
“We didn’t want to just have ideas, we also wanted to create something that would really work,” says Witman. The village structure means that refugees never have to walk more than a few minutes to access basic services.
Rawlence, a former researcher for Human Rights Watch, describes in compelling and empathetic detail what it’s like not only to live in the camp but to know nothing else. Joseph Communications uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. People are doing things without going through the established mechanisms.”Describing the refugee crisis as “a challenge too big for governments and NGOs alone,” What Design Can Do came up with The Refugee Challenge, an invitation to designers, architects and thinkers to come up with creative solutions.
Jordan Pix/Getty Images. “There was no concern for building connections or establishing a normal social life for the inhabitants.”Adjahossou figured the best way to remedy this was to talk to the inhabitants directly and find out what they envisioned for their new community. The meetings are lively and full; so much so, says CARE’s Marten Mylius, that they set up a day care next door. “If you say politics should solve it and then you just go on with your life, I don’t think that’s the best attitude.” In the few weeks that she’s been in the camp, Mylius says, she’s become a vocal community leader.In most refugee camps, Sattler explains, “people are moved en masse away from their communities and just housed according to a map, or ‘Here’s a free shelter, so you go there.’ ” But Azraq groups refugees according to what region of Syria they come from, and people can reserve spaces next door for family members.
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rethinking the refugee camp