Majzoub Raafat - Design To Live Everyday Inventions From A Refugee Camp - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: Design To Live Everyday Inventions From A Refugee Camp
Author(s): Majzoub Raafat
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262542876
Pages: 344 Pages, 165 Figures
Publication Date: 10/19/2021
Category: Architecture