EAN: 9780262542876

DESIGN TO LIVE EVERYDAY INVENTIONS FROM A REFUG...

The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs  inventions 
and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how  even in the most
difficult conditions--forced displacement  trauma  and struggle--design can help create a life
worth living. Design to Live documents designs  inventions  and artworks created by Syrian
refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative
innovations--including the vertical garden  an arrangement necessitated by regulations that
forbid planting in the ground  a front hall  fashioned to protect privacy  a baby swing made
from recycled desks  and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material
scarcity  unforgiving desert climate  and cultural isolation of the camp. Written in close
collaboration with the residents of the camp  with text in both English and Arabic  Design to
Live  reflects two perspectives on the camp: people living and working in Azraq and designers
reflecting on humanitarian architecture within the broader field of socially engaged art and
design. Architectural drawings  illustrations  photographs  narratives  and stories offer vivid
testimony to the imaginative and artful ways that residents alter and reconstruct the
standardized humanitarian design of the camp--and provide models that can be replicated
elsewhere. The book is the product of a three-year project undertaken by MIT Future Heritage
Lab  researchers and students with Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp  CARE  Jordan  and
the German-Jordanian University. Copublication with Future Heritage Lab  MIT

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