In September and October, our students undertook the three-week Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop, offered in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC). The…
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“The participation of local communities in the process of refugee integration helps to combat discrimination against refugees.” Building social and physical perspectives into policies for urban integration of refugee and…
Former student Dana Barqawi asks this question in a recent article in which she advocates for planning cities rather than camps, as a much-needed long-term approach to housing refugees. It’s…
As the refugee crisis intensifies across European borders, one of its most notorious epicenters, the Calais “Jungle” refugee camp, is being evacuated as we speak, hours before its pending demolition….
On October 17th and November 11th, our master program will be hosting two separate roundtable discussions aimed at shedding light on the urban and architectural issues surrounding the refugee crisis….
This Friday we welcome back former student Nasr Chamma to give an open lecture titled Rethinking Refugee Camps: Syrian Refugees within the Context of Jordan, about his experience working with…
Refugee Republic, an interactive online documentary mapping the lives of 58,000 people living in the Domiz camp for Syrian refugees in northern Iraq, has been awarded best communication project and…
This week’s workshop is taught by African geopolitics and refugee camps expert Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán, former director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Liberia and Ivory Coast and head of its programs…
We recently caught up with former student David Kostenwein, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, who is now based in Bogotá implementing Inter-American Development Bank’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative,…
The aim of this roundtable is to discuss and think about the issue of refugee camps and displaced populations from the perspective of architecture and urbanism. Those two aspects are…