Architectures of Displacement: The Experiences and Consequences of Emergency Shelter
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: International Development
Abstract
The experience of forced displacement is profoundly shaped by where people find shelter. The most urgent concern for migrants is how to find safe and stable spaces in which to live, rest and sleep, both during their journey and when they arrive at their destination. Tents and camps dominate media images of forced displacement, but forced migrants find shelter in many other ways. They may make use of abandoned buildings, stay on the floors of friends and relatives, find rest in self-built shelters, or sleep under trees in the natural environment. Some may find themselves placed in reception centres and immigration detention facilities against their will. Others may be housed in specially created spaces, such as 'villages' made from shipping containers or IKEA-designed prefabricated shelters. Still others may find accommodation through private rentals, supported by cash transfers from aid agencies or forms of welfare from governmental bodies. These types of emergency shelter form a vital infrastructure that result from human improvisation and contingency as much as design or planning. At present this infrastructure is very poorly understood.
Architectures of Displacement begins with the observation that material forms of shelter offer unique insights into migration and refugees. By developing a new interdisciplinary approach to the physical dimension of the refugee experience, this research will provide unique perspectives upon the processes of human adaptation to new circumstances through displacement. The project will explore the impact of different shelter on the fate of refugees, as well as the political and legal consequences of forced migration and its entanglement with the exigencies of shelter. Given the scale of global displacement and the number of people living in 'non-traditional' spaces in large urban areas, there is a particularly urgent need to understand the variety of forms that shelter takes and the experiences and consequences of living in its various forms.
The project draws together three disciplines with distinct but complementary approaches to the study of material forms: Anthropology, Architecture and Archaeology. It will develop a new approach to recording and understanding the variety of temporary architectural forms and material ephemera that are so central to the experience of forced migration. It will document and categorise, for the first time, the diversity and consequences of emergency shelter. And by focusing on the connections between material environments and human experiences, the data gathered by the project will assist policymakers in making informed choices about how to manage the arrival of refugees.
The cross-disciplinary approach of this project builds on three main bodies of research and practice.
1) Architecture brings a focus on the significance of the built environment for human life. It provides a way to consider how forms of shelter are constructed and used, a method for categorising different forms of shelter, and a technique for examining how spaces function.
2) Archaeology brings an awareness of time, duration, and loss to the study. It enables the project to explore the connections between abandonment and shelter, the material circumstances of the repurposing of existing structures, the ephemeral interventions and adaptations made in the natural environment in order to shelter in it, and the traces left by refugees through sheltering practices.
3) Anthropology offers a technique for studying how people react to displacement. It enables the project to study everyday life in different forms of accommodation, exploring how beneficiary populations understand, alter, reimagine, and accept or resist the shelters they are provided with; examining the processes, motivations and practicalities through which they find places to shelter for themselves; and exploring the ways in which sheltering practices lead to adaptations in social life.
Architectures of Displacement begins with the observation that material forms of shelter offer unique insights into migration and refugees. By developing a new interdisciplinary approach to the physical dimension of the refugee experience, this research will provide unique perspectives upon the processes of human adaptation to new circumstances through displacement. The project will explore the impact of different shelter on the fate of refugees, as well as the political and legal consequences of forced migration and its entanglement with the exigencies of shelter. Given the scale of global displacement and the number of people living in 'non-traditional' spaces in large urban areas, there is a particularly urgent need to understand the variety of forms that shelter takes and the experiences and consequences of living in its various forms.
The project draws together three disciplines with distinct but complementary approaches to the study of material forms: Anthropology, Architecture and Archaeology. It will develop a new approach to recording and understanding the variety of temporary architectural forms and material ephemera that are so central to the experience of forced migration. It will document and categorise, for the first time, the diversity and consequences of emergency shelter. And by focusing on the connections between material environments and human experiences, the data gathered by the project will assist policymakers in making informed choices about how to manage the arrival of refugees.
The cross-disciplinary approach of this project builds on three main bodies of research and practice.
1) Architecture brings a focus on the significance of the built environment for human life. It provides a way to consider how forms of shelter are constructed and used, a method for categorising different forms of shelter, and a technique for examining how spaces function.
2) Archaeology brings an awareness of time, duration, and loss to the study. It enables the project to explore the connections between abandonment and shelter, the material circumstances of the repurposing of existing structures, the ephemeral interventions and adaptations made in the natural environment in order to shelter in it, and the traces left by refugees through sheltering practices.
3) Anthropology offers a technique for studying how people react to displacement. It enables the project to study everyday life in different forms of accommodation, exploring how beneficiary populations understand, alter, reimagine, and accept or resist the shelters they are provided with; examining the processes, motivations and practicalities through which they find places to shelter for themselves; and exploring the ways in which sheltering practices lead to adaptations in social life.
Planned Impact
Architectures of Displacement will benefit three main stakeholder groups: humanitarian organisations involved in the provision of shelter to refugees, forced migrants themselves, and public audiences.
1. Humanitarian Organisations.
Aid agencies will be closely involved in planning and advising on the locations of the research. Existing contacts at the Refugee Studies Centre will help identify suitable partners in the six fieldwork countries, and representatives from three organisations will sit on the project's steering committee. A planned special issue of Forced Migration Review will reach out to practitioners (circulation 15,000 across 160 countries) collecting articles that outline key concerns and debates in the sector. Findings will be communicated to humanitarian practitioners in the following forms:
a) An 'inventory of possibilities' on the project website. This will document the diverse range of options for emergency shelter, featuring architectural drawings, photographs, and descriptions of existing shelters in all their diversity. This can be used as a resource for aid agencies in understanding the full spectrum of possible options and interventions to assist refugees in their accommodation
b) Ten detailed 'portraits' of various accommodation types. This will include a full examination of the legal, political, cultural and social implications of ten emergency shelters, accompanied by narratives of lived experience and photographic images. They will be collected as a book manuscript, become part of a documentary film, and visual materials will be curated as an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The portraits can be used by aid agencies to help make informed decisions, helping understand in detail what shelter options look like, what they feel like to live in, and what their implications may be.
c) Seven collaborative workshops, one in each field location and a final workshop in Oxford. In these workshops the project findings will be discussed and the implications for the provision of emergency shelter examined. The workshops in each field site will be informal and participatory, with refugees and frontline aid staff discussing work in progress. The final workshop in Oxford will be for policymakers and staff from UK-based aid agencies, presenting entire project findings and generating briefings on good practice shelter programming.
2. Forced migrants.
Forced migrants will co-produce detailed 'portraits' of emergency shelter. They will be involved throughout the research and will benefit in three principal ways. First through the documentation of their experiences and memories - a form of 'writing against the wind' and ensuring key elements of their journey are preserved. Second, through their involvement in producing quality, detailed information about disaster shelter, which will help improve policy and practice in the shelter sector. Third, through improved public understanding of the refugee experience, which will help build opportunities for advocacy on refugee rights.
3. Public audiences
Greater public understanding of the refugee issue will be promoted through:
a) Two public workshops held in UK Refugee Week, 2017 and 2018
b) One exhibition of narratives, photographic images, and material remnants of refugee accommodation, to be installed at the Pitt Rivers Museum (400,000 visitors annually) alongside a programme of talks and public events. The exhibit will also be promoted to arts centres in Jordan and Lebanon through aid agencies.
c) One feature length documentary film, exploring five lives in emergency shelter. Film is the most appropriate way to communicate the spatial aspects of refugee shelter as well as a powerful medium for communicating the complex lived experiences of forced migration. The film will be a major part of the impact strategy. It will be archived at the Pitt Rivers Museum and promoted to film festivals in Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt.
1. Humanitarian Organisations.
Aid agencies will be closely involved in planning and advising on the locations of the research. Existing contacts at the Refugee Studies Centre will help identify suitable partners in the six fieldwork countries, and representatives from three organisations will sit on the project's steering committee. A planned special issue of Forced Migration Review will reach out to practitioners (circulation 15,000 across 160 countries) collecting articles that outline key concerns and debates in the sector. Findings will be communicated to humanitarian practitioners in the following forms:
a) An 'inventory of possibilities' on the project website. This will document the diverse range of options for emergency shelter, featuring architectural drawings, photographs, and descriptions of existing shelters in all their diversity. This can be used as a resource for aid agencies in understanding the full spectrum of possible options and interventions to assist refugees in their accommodation
b) Ten detailed 'portraits' of various accommodation types. This will include a full examination of the legal, political, cultural and social implications of ten emergency shelters, accompanied by narratives of lived experience and photographic images. They will be collected as a book manuscript, become part of a documentary film, and visual materials will be curated as an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The portraits can be used by aid agencies to help make informed decisions, helping understand in detail what shelter options look like, what they feel like to live in, and what their implications may be.
c) Seven collaborative workshops, one in each field location and a final workshop in Oxford. In these workshops the project findings will be discussed and the implications for the provision of emergency shelter examined. The workshops in each field site will be informal and participatory, with refugees and frontline aid staff discussing work in progress. The final workshop in Oxford will be for policymakers and staff from UK-based aid agencies, presenting entire project findings and generating briefings on good practice shelter programming.
2. Forced migrants.
Forced migrants will co-produce detailed 'portraits' of emergency shelter. They will be involved throughout the research and will benefit in three principal ways. First through the documentation of their experiences and memories - a form of 'writing against the wind' and ensuring key elements of their journey are preserved. Second, through their involvement in producing quality, detailed information about disaster shelter, which will help improve policy and practice in the shelter sector. Third, through improved public understanding of the refugee experience, which will help build opportunities for advocacy on refugee rights.
3. Public audiences
Greater public understanding of the refugee issue will be promoted through:
a) Two public workshops held in UK Refugee Week, 2017 and 2018
b) One exhibition of narratives, photographic images, and material remnants of refugee accommodation, to be installed at the Pitt Rivers Museum (400,000 visitors annually) alongside a programme of talks and public events. The exhibit will also be promoted to arts centres in Jordan and Lebanon through aid agencies.
c) One feature length documentary film, exploring five lives in emergency shelter. Film is the most appropriate way to communicate the spatial aspects of refugee shelter as well as a powerful medium for communicating the complex lived experiences of forced migration. The film will be a major part of the impact strategy. It will be archived at the Pitt Rivers Museum and promoted to film festivals in Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Tom Scott-Smith (Principal Investigator) | |
| Dan Hicks (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Scott-Smith, T.
(2018)
The Humanitarian-Architect Divide
in Forced Migration Review
Scott-Smith, T.
(2018)
A Slightly Better Shelter?
in Limn
Scott-Smith T
(2019)
Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Scott-Smith T
(2019)
Places for People
in Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
Breeze M
(2019)
Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Hicks
(2019)
Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond
Scott-Smith T
(2019)
'Places for People': Architecture, Building and Humanitarian Innovation
in Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
SCOTT-SMITH T
(2019)
Beyond the boxes Refugee shelter and the humanitarian politics of life
in American Ethnologist
Kiddey R
(2020)
Reluctant Refuge: An Activist Archaeological Approach to Alternative Refugee Shelter in Athens (Greece)
in Journal of Refugee Studies
Scott-Smith T
(2020)
Building a Bed for the Night: The Parisian "Yellow Bubble" and the Politics of Humanitarian Architecture
in Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
| Title | Inclusion of Shelter Inventory entries and images in the Imperial War Museum (IWM) exhibit "Forced to Flee" |
| Description | Architectures of Displacement featured in the Imperial War Museum (IWM) exhbition "Forced to Flee", which ran from 24th September 2020 to 13th June 2021. As part of the project, researchers have created the Refugee Shelter Inventory, which documents different types of refugee shelters. Some diagrams from the Inventory were reproduced in the exhibition. The Inventory demonstrates the diversity of these structures and the environments in which they exist. They illustrate many different ways that humanitarian agencies have responded to the basic needs of refugee populations - with both positive and negative results. The images included: Afghanistan Winterised Shelter Location Northern Afghanistan Situation Refugees returning from conflict Intended lifespan 1 year This bamboo and plastic structure combats the harsh winter conditions in Afghanistan. Winterised Shelters are constructed around a tent, further shielding occupants from the elements. They are built by local labourers. Papawarin Pinij/University of Oxford Azraq T-Shelter Location Azraq Camp, Jordan Situation Syria Conflict Intended lifespan 2-4 years This steel and aluminium structure is designed to house thousands of refugees at Azraq Camp. T-Shelters provide privacy and protect against severe weather conditions. The parts are prefabricated and arrive at the camp as a 'kit.' Papawarin Pinij/University of Oxford Tukul Shelter Location South Sudan Situation South Sudanese Civil War Intended lifespan 2-4 years This traditional wooden-framed structure provides shelter for displaced people across South Sudan. Tukul Shelters insulate against heat and resist strong winds. They are built with locally available materials. Papawarin Pinij/University of Oxford |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Exposure of the shelter inventory project |
| URL | https://www.iwm.org.uk/forcedtoflee |
| Title | Infrastructures of Care: Spaces of Refuge and Displacement |
| Description | Architectures of Displacement submitted a series of images of refugee shelter to the Barlett (UCL) exhibition "Infrastructures of Care: Spaces of Refuge and Displacement". This event brings together academics, activists, NGOs and spatial practitioners to discuss questions of infrastructures of care relating to forced migration. The aim is to explore the various spatial, material, human, and humanitarian entanglements of provision created for and by displaced people. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The exhibition catalogue, featuring images from Architectures of Displacement, will be published in 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2019/feb/infrastructures-care-spaces-displ... |
| Title | Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond |
| Description | Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond is a major temporary exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum, running from 27 April to 29 November 2019. The exhibition has been made in parallel with a book, also called Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond (Bristol University Press), published to coincide with the opening. The exhibition reassembles material and visual culture that survives from the 'Jungle' as it existed at Calais from March 2015 to the demolitions of 2016. It does so in order to make visible the landscape of 'borderwork' at Calais. These range from photographs and artworks made by displaced people and undocumented children to images made by activists and artists, and from the Calais cross salvaged from the Orthodox Church at the 'Jungle' to a fragment of border fencing. The exhibition includes a new commission, ??? ????? ?? ?? ??? ('The Wind Will Take Us Away'), by Majid Adin. Everything on display is on temporary loan from displaced people, activists and volunteers who lived and worked at the 'Jungle' three years ago. Through these loans our hope is to create some small duration for ephemeral things, artworks and images that have been kept, each object bearing witness to human precarity, resistance, creativity, and hope. Lande was the controversial, euphemistic name used by French authorities for the site of this 'tolerated' encampment on the eastern margins of Calais. The French word 'lande' means 'heath': it referred to the marginal physical geography of sandy outlands, a contaminated former landfill site. By summer 2016, ten thousand displaced people lived at this place, better known as the 'Jungle de Calais'. The term 'Jungle' has been used for many different large and smaller encampments in Pas-de-Calais over the past two decades. Today some two thousand displaced people still live in 'micro-jungles' in the Calais landscape. Cycles of demolitions and encampments are intensifying. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Our national borders and anthropology museums are both Victorian technologies of classification. They were designed to forge differences between people. But both are also unfinished and open-ended (post)colonial enterprises. Our exhibit attends to the new experimental regimes of state borderwork at Calais. It simultaneously experiments with the ethnographic museum, using the lens of 'contemporary archaeology' to make visible untold stories. Reassembling images, objects, environments and words from the near-past, it bears witness to the ongoing human experiences of displaced people at the UK national border at Calais. Through four themes - Environmental Hostility, Temporal Violence, Visual Politics, and Giving Time - we hope, by displaying some of what survives from the undocumented present, to create a space for new dialogues around the ongoing situation at Calais. Any loan brings obligations, but each of these also reveals a debt to those who are classified as 'other' at places like borders or museums. Our hope in this exhibition is to make the space and time to foreground human relationships - from within the Pitt Rivers as an institution that has been so often concerned with the timeless representation of others. Displaying artefacts and images from the most recent past, we hope to create a provisional time and place in which to think about our contemporary world. |
| URL | http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/lande |
| Title | Shelter Without Shelter |
| Description | Filmed over two years across Europe and the Middle East, this documentary feature takes you behind the scenes to the realities of refugee shelter, the people who created them, and the migrants who have to live in them. From mega-camps, city squats, and occupied airports, to informal settlements, requisitioned buildings, and flat-pack solutions, SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER gives you unique insights into one of the greatest challenges of our times. We all need shelter, but what is it? |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This film is currently being entered to film festivals |
| URL | http://www.shelterwithoutshelter.com |
| Title | ShelterInventory.org |
| Description | When most people think of refugee shelter, they usually imagine a tent, mobile home, or camp. These are structures that have been notionally designed and planned. However, forced migrants draw on a much wider range of accommodation, from the formal to the entirely improvised: tents, temporary structures, prefabricated homes, permanent buildings, detention facilities, squats, self-built shelters, rented accommodation, ruined architecture, and the natural environment, for example. We hope to capture these dynamics and this diversity in our inventory. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The Refugee Shelter Inventory attempts to document the full range of shelters used, built, modified, and/or designed by and/or for refugees. |
| URL | http://www.shelterinventory.org |
| Description | Few of the new architectural designs for refugee shelter that appeared since the 'summer of migration' in 2015 have created viable solutions or have reckoned with the pressing financial and political constraints of humanitarian emergencies. Many have suffered from being overly complex, making extravagant claims, or not being adequately tested by their intended inhabitants. Such designs also fail due to an inability to confront the political and legal complexities that keep forced migrants in vulnerable conditions. There have been numerous concerns shared by the inhabitants of all emergency refugee shelters studied in this project about control over the basics of daily life such as food, lighting, security and distance to local amenities. The ability to cater for oneself and one's family is particularly essential to social and cultural wellbeing, as is the ability to lock a door and create a home within a defined and stable space. Addressing these issues can play a significant role in determining whether beneficiary populations accept their accommodation and can have a positive impact on mental health. Food, particularly, is not taken seriously enough in the planning of shelters. Since 2016 there have been a range of more subtle and successful interventions, which move beyond the desire to create complete prefabricated shelters to focus, instead, on improving existing living spaces cheaply through the provision of designed objects or the adaptation of abandoned buildings. Some architectural projects showcased in the 2016 Venice Biennale promoted modest but creative design solutions to improve control and quality. Forced migrants have also engaged in bottom up approaches, self-building and self-organising. Efforts to integrate variety and social life have been particularly successful. A significant constraint in emergency shelter is the yearly funding cycle combined with a political unwillingness to consider long-term settlement of refugee populations. Money is wasted and poor quality accommodation becomes inevitable if stakeholders only plan from year to year. Far better quality shelter can be provided for less money alongside investment for host communities if multi-year funding can be allocated in advance. Innovative approaches in this area are being developed in Lebanon and Jordan, and it remains a key area for policy development. Recording and communicating the dilemmas of emergency shelter and the experience of forced migration has been facilitated through film in this project. This is an ideal medium for recording the diverse range of architectural spaces, life within them, strategic justifications, and key challenges. The method allowed juxtapositions and comparison between different architectural engagements, assessing product design, engineering solutions, flat pack approaches and renovations. Film allowed a more complex evaluation of camps, which are often unsubtly and mistakenly considered suboptimal in all circumstances. The project, which considered many different shelter types, conducted fieldwork in France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Sweden, Austria and Belgium. Results have been presented through a range of outputs, including an edition of Forced Migration Review on Shelter, an edited collection published by Berghahn books, a shelter inventory website, an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum, a programme of public events in Oxford, an international conference, and a feature length documentary film entitled 'Shelter without Shelter'. A number of journal articles are complete, and a final book manuscript is currently in preparation. |
| Exploitation Route | The findings may be put to use by architects and designers considering any future engagement in emergency shelter, or by refugees and refugee support organizations advising or engaging as stakeholders in shelter projects. There are implications in this study for donor governments and international humanitarian organizations, especially when it comes to planning for future mass influx of refugees. The research identified good practice as well as risks in the provision of shelter, while emphasising the importance of cultural context. These recommendations will be developed further in policy briefs and journal articles to appear over the next two years. Our accessible, feature-length documentary film on this topic will also begin to travel around film festivals as well as being screened at university public events, engaging the wider public in debates about good design and ethical provision of housing to refugees and other forced migrants. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Description | The findings of the project have been showcased in an award winning documentary 'Shelter without Shelter', which examined how forced migrants from Syria were housed across Europe and the Middle East after 2015. Containing perspectives from the humanitarians who created these shelters as well as the critics who campaigned against them, the documentary revealed the complex dilemmas involved in attempts to house refugees in emergency conditions. The film won the top award of Best Research Film at the AHRC Research in Film Awards 2020 and premiered at the London Architecture Film Festival in 2021. It was subsequently screened at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Ciné Façade Festival 2021, the Norwegian International Film Festival at Haugesund, the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, the UrbanEye Film Festival in Bucharest, the Freemantle Design Week Film Festival in Melbourne, and the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival at cities across New Zealand all in 2022, as well as at one off events in London, Oxford, Cambridge, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Nairobi, Ramallah, Wellington, Dunedin, and Auckland through partnerships with McGill University, Columbia University, the American Institute of Architects, the British Film Institute, Ciné Lumière at the Institut Franc¸aise and the Goethe Institute. The academics on the project ran series of policy briefings, workshops and other knowledge exchange activities focusing on the role of architecture and design in provision of accommodation to refugees. One of the highlights was an international workshop entitled "Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter", which hosted 30 academics from over ten countries and led to an edited collection of essays, subsequently published by Berghahn Books. This book targeted policymakers and aimed at widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants. The project further disseminated its findings through broadcast radio, with segments devoted to the projects findings on BBC BBC Radio's Free Thinking programme, the Radio 3 Essay, and Radio 4's Four Thought. The project led to 'Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond' a major temporary exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum which ran in 2019, which included photographs and artworks made by displaced people and undocumented children from the 'Jungle', a refugee and migrant camp outside of Calais, France. Humanitarians and policymakers were then engaged through the UK Shelter Forum, a bi-annual event for shelter specialists and architects, and further events were hosted by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Festival Hall. As part of this engagement work, the project created an inventory of emergency refugee shelters with architectural drawings and detailed plans. Images from this inventory were circulated to aid workers and featured in the 2020 Imperial War Museum exhibition, 'Refugees: Forced to Flee', which combined research and real-life experiences with photographs, oral histories, documents and objects to question why conflict forces people to leave and examine humanitarian responses. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Policy & public services |
| Description | HEFCE GCRF Open Internal Competition (University of Oxford) |
| Amount | £23,636 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 0005077 |
| Organisation | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | The John Fell Fund |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 0005183 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 04/2019 |
| Title | Architectures of displacement: Humanitarian strategies for sheltering refugees, in-depth expert interviews 2016-2019 |
| Description | The Architectures of Displacement research project at the University of Oxford examined a range of different humanitarian strategies for sheltering refugees in six countries across Europe and the Middle East between 2016 and 2019. The project involved a number of in-depth qualitative interviews with experts on shelter, humanitarianism, and the provision of accommodation for refugees. These interviews examine, in detail, the context of each country, the dominant sheltering method employed in that context, the strengths and weaknesses of the model, and the lessons for future practice. The findings explore in particular the role of designers, architects and humanitarian agencies for improving shelter for refugees. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854001/ |
| Description | 'Building for a new life' on BBC Radio 4's Four Thought |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Mark Breeze features on BBC Radio 4's latest edition of 'Four Thought', in a programme titled 'Building for a new life' aired on Wednesday 1 February. An architect and Research Officer on the project Architectures of Displacement, Mark Breeze addresses the question of why architects have not done more to design better shelter for refugees.He speaks of the experiences of refugees he met at the so-called 'Jungle' camp at Calais, living in cold, damp shelters, unfit for purpose. As he says, this was not a 'destination' for those living there, they did not want to live there permanently, but this does not mean they should have to live in such "unsafe, unstable, unhealthy" conditions. Architects are trained for many years, he says, to use "their imagination to create thoughtful responses to complex, often conflicting challenges", to design "effective, healthy, stable and relevant shelter". With so many displaced people and refugees in the world today (over 65 million displaced people according to UNHCR), and so many in need of shelter, he asks, "Why is architecture failing refugees?" He highlights a number of the challenges faced: Cost - how to make the few available resources go further in terms of the design process, materials, labour involved, etc. For example, could shelters be designed to be reusable, or could local labour be used to help build the local economy? The client - just who is this? Governments, NGOs, or refugees themselves? How can a design reconcile their different needs? Time/speed - shelters need to be easy to build on site, or easy to store, transport and assemble; Context - refugee shelters are needed in a huge variety of contexts and environments; The temporary nature of refugee shelters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c0rv5 |
| Description | 'Roles of design in emergency shelter' - Talk at the London Festival of Architecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the Architectures Sans Frontiers event 'Designing for Inclusion: Integrating Refugees and Migrants in Cities' as expert panellist and workshop contributor. This was part of a day-long event at the London Festival of Architecture, 2016, attended by around 70 people. The workshop included a Challenging Practice activity, developed by ASF, which used participation, interaction, and human-centred design methods to help practitioners develop original insights into the challenges of integrating refugees and migrants in cities, based on real cases and inspiring projects from around the globe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | An Archaeology of Impermanence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Dan Hicks gave a talk at the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC), a flagship research institute within the Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam), Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden), the Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal) and the Wereldmuseum (Rotterdam). The talk took place on 15 Feb 2018 as part of the 'key concepts' seminar series and concerned the material culture of the European refugee crisis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/dan-hicks-archaeology-impermanence |
| Description | Architecture Film Festival Closing Film Screening: Shelter Without Shelter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event took place on Sunday 27th June 2021, when the film Shelter Without Shelter was selected as the closing film for the 2021 Architecture Film Festival, London. After the screening there was a 1-hour Q&A with the directors. Shelter Without Shelter explores the hopes and challenges involved in providing temporary housing for refugees. Filmed over three years since 2015, this six-part documentary investigates how forced migrants from Syria were sheltered across Europe and the Middle East, ending up in mega-camps, city squats, occupied airports, illegal settlements, requisitioned buildings, flat-pack structures, and enormous architect-designed reception centres. Containing perspectives from the humanitarians who created these shelters as well as the critics who campaigned against them, the documentary reveals the complex dilemmas involved in attempts to house refugees in emergency conditions. Based on innovative new research at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre, Shelter Without Shelter offers new insights into a universal human experience. We all need shelter, but what is it? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://archfilmfest.uk/film-event-shelter-without-shelter |
| Description | BBC Radio 3 broadcast (national) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast on Radio 3 programme Free Thinking, Thursday 18 June 2020 to mark Refugee Week 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k37n |
| Description | BBC Radio 3 broadcast (national) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This broadcast of BBC Free Thinking, broadcast on 18 November 2020, discussed the outcome of the AHRC Research In Film Awards. Shelter without Shelter, an output from the Architectures of Displacement project, won the main category of Best Research Film. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08yvsf2 |
| Description | British Film Institute Screening of Shelter Without Shelter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event took place on Tuesday, 19 October 2021 at 7pm at the BFI Screening Room, 21 Stephen Street, London, W1T 1LN SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER explores the hopes and challenges involved in providing temporary housing for refugees. Filmed over three years since 2015, this six-part documentary investigates how forced migrants from Syria were sheltered across Europe and the Middle East, ending up in mega-camps, city squats, occupied airports, illegal settlements, requisitioned buildings, flat-pack structures, and enormous architect-designed reception centres. Containing perspectives from the humanitarians who created these shelters as well as the critics who campaigned against them, the documentary reveals the complex dilemmas involved in attempts to house refugees in emergency conditions. Based on innovative new research at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre, SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER offers new insights into a universal human experience. We all need shelter, but what is it? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.aiauk.org/events-calendar/2021/10/19/aia-uk-2021-movie-night-1 |
| Description | Building Without Architecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Mark Breeze gave a paper 'Building Without Architecture' at the University of Oxford conference 'Beyond Crisis', which took place on Thursday, 16 March 2017 to Friday, 17 March 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/beyond-crisis-rethinking-refugee-studies |
| Description | Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Montreal Screening of Shelter Without Shelter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event took place on 19 August 2021 and involved the film Shelter Without Shelter (selected by theCanadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal) to be screened on Thursday 19th August 2030-2200hrs (EST) as part of their outdoor Ciné Façade programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/80881/shelter-without-shelter |
| Description | Care in Crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Tom Scott-Smith participated in the conference 'Care in Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Humanitarianism' at the University of Mainz on 22-24 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Designing for the Refugee Crisis - Museum of Architecture Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This panel, organized by the Museum of Architecture, was chaired by the Guardian Journalist Karen McVeigh and held at the Building Centre in central London, with a large public audience. The description of the event was as follows: "Over the past year the refugee situation across Europe has escalated into a full-blown crisis. Very recently the "Jungle" refugee and migrant camp in Calais - a symbol of Europe's immigration crisis - has started being demolished leaving many displaced. Architects are equipped with the knowledge that can provide a solution to one of the most basic human rights refugees need: shelter. The question is not should the architectural community respond, but how? This panel discussion will shed light on some of the work architects and designers are doing in response to the crisis.". Dr. Tom Scott-Smith presented his work alongside Uli Schmid, Senior Expert, Humanitarian Action Program, Innovation & Planning Agency Association; Dr. Harriet Harriss, Senior Tutor in Interior Design & Architecture, Royal College of Art; and Johan Karlsson, Interim Managing Director, Better Shelter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/designing-for-the-refugee-crisis |
| Description | Finding Shelter, Defining Shelter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One of the most vital concerns for migrants when they first leave their homes is where to find a safe and stable space. Tents and camps dominate media images of forced displacement, but forced migrants find shelter in many other ways; abandoned buildings, staying on the floors of friends and relatives, self-built shelters, sleeping in the natural environment, and being housed in specially created spaces, prefabricated shelters, or government-run detention centres. Through an exclusive preview of the documentary 'Shelter Without Shelter' this interdisciplinary panel will discuss some of the latest research and issues in refugee shelter to create a more nuanced and detailed understanding of refugee sheltering, helping us understand the impact of shelter policies on the lives on refugees. The panel will explore the roles of architecture, engineering, anthropology and more to not only improve refugee shelter, but question the very nature of shelter itself. Jesus College, Frankopan Hall, Jesus Lane , CB5 8BJ Our Panel: Dr Mark E Breeze - Director of Studies in Architecture, St. John's College, Cambridge Dr Tom Scott-Smith - Assoc Professor of Forced Migration, Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre Dr. Georgia Cole - Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, Newnham College Jenny George - Doctoral Researcher, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge Dunya Habash - Research Officer, The Woolf Institute, Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/finding-shelter-defining-shelter |
| Description | Forced Migration Review Issue 55: Shelter in Displacement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Forced Migration Review (FMR) is the most widely read publication on forced migration - available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, and free of charge in print and online. It is published by the Refugee Studies Centre in the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Through FMR, authors from around the world analyse the causes and impacts of displacement; debate policies and programmes; share research findings; reflect the lived experience of displacement; and present examples of good practice and recommendations for policy and action. It is distributed to over fifty countries. This issue of FMR provided a forum for practitioners, advocates, policymakers and researchers to share experience, debate perspectives and offer recommendations. It featured practice-oriented submissions, reflecting a diverse range of experience and opinions. The issue was 83 pages long and it featured 30 articles from a variety of academics and practitioners. Displaced people all need some form of shelter - whether emergency, temporary or more permanent, and whether self-settled or in planned settings, whether in rural or urban contexts. The form of shelter and settlement that people find or are provided with profoundly affects their experience of displacement. Shelter and settlement should first support survival and safety. However, support for return or reconstruction options is important for credible longer-term solutions. According to the Sphere Handbook, "Beyond survival, shelter is necessary to provide security and personal safety, protection from the climate and enhanced resistance to ill health and disease. It is also important for human dignity and to sustain family and community life as far as possible in difficult circumstances." Achieving this has posed a challenge to the assistance sector for decades, with responses continuing to change and develop. In terms of assistance, shelter is not only about architectural or technical design but also matters of community planning and with a focus with significant links to other sectors. This issue of FMR examined the variety of shelter and settlement responses found, employed and created by, and created for, displaced people. It looked at the possibilities and limitations of community planning and design in responses to displacement and at examples of good practice, in order to improve understanding of and practice in offering shelter and settlement support for people displaced into whatever circumstances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.fmreview.org/shelter.html |
| Description | Heritage and Impermanence: Refugee Material Culture as European Heritage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Dan Hicks gave a keynote lecture: "Heritage and Impermanence: Refugee Material Culture as European Heritage" for Le Patrimoine Culturel de l'Europe/The Cultural Heritage of Europe Conference at Sorbonne University, Paris 4-5 June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.centrechastel.paris-sorbonne.fr/actualites/le-patrimoine-culturel-de-leurope-2018-reexami... |
| Description | Ikea, not architecture: the flatpack refugee shelter and its critics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was given by Dr. Mark Breeze at the 'Image & Object: Architecture' Workshop, Centre for Visual Studies, University of Oxford, on Friday 3rd March 2017 at the Lecture Theatre, History Faculty, George Street. It was a symposium on the subject of architecture; through six short presentations from different perspectives, the workshop offered an occasion both to celebrate and to build upon the diversity of work surrounding images which is currently in progress across the University of Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Infrastructures of Care: Spaces of Refuge and Displacement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Mark Breeze participated in this symposium and exhibition at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, on 1st February 2019. He also exhibited photographs from the project research. The event brought together academics, activists, NGOs and spatial practitioners to discuss questions of infrastructures of care relating to forced migration. The event explored the various spatial, material, human, and humanitarian entanglements of provision created for and by displaced people. The exhibition ran from 1st to the 8th February in Room 1.01, 22 Gordon Street, UCL, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2019/feb/infrastructures-care-spaces-refuge-and-d... |
| Description | LANDE: the Calais "Jungle" and Beyond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | LANDE: the Calais "Jungle" and Beyond Tuesday 9 October 2018, 5.30pm Speaker(s): Rachael Kiddey, Dan Hicks and Sarah Mallet This seminar introduces the ongoing research in European contemporary archaeology that lies behind the forthcoming museum exhibition "Lande: the Calais "Jungle" and Beyond", which opens at the Pitt Rivers Museum on 29 March 2019 runs to 29 November 2019. The themes addressed will include: 1) documenting the material, visual and digital culture of forced migration in Europe and the Middle East, 2) the status of the European ethnological museum after the refugee crisis of 2015, and 3) contemporary archaeology and activism in the context of the Calais "Jungle" and beyond. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/news-and-events/events/external/heritage-research/2018-19/kiddey-... |
| Description | Participation at the UK Shelter Forum: working group for UK-based shelter practitioners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Mark Breeze participated in the 22nd UK Shelter Forum which took place on the 8th of June in London, co-hosted by CARE and Habitat for Humanity. The theme of the forum was The Future of Shelter. "Two years after the World Humanitarian Summit, humanitarian reform remains high on the agenda. Multi-purpose cash offers opportunities and challenges to sectoral objectives, the 'humanitarian-development nexus' asks questions of who does what in shelter responses, the gaps between humanitarian needs and funding are ever-growing, and conflict and displacement are increasing. How will the shelter sector respond and adapt in the future? Will there be continued incremental change, or major disruption? How much does the shelter sector need to challenge itself to change? UKSF 22 will examine these questions, and what the future holds for the shelter sector and the people it seeks to help." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.shelterforum.info/uk-shelter-forum-22/ |
| Description | Participation at the UK Shelter Forum: working group for UK-based shelter practitioners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr.. Mark Breeze participated in the UK Shelter Forum, which took place on the 23rd of November in London, co-hosted by Arup and ShelterBox. The theme of the forum was 'Relief to Recovery', and the event considered the following issues: How is the "modern emergency" changing? From the emergency stage right through to development, what is different - from how governments deal with NGOs, cash and new financial models, and increasing urbanisation how can we develop shelter options that are sustainable in the long term? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.shelterforum.info/uk-shelter-forum-23/ |
| Description | Presentation at the UK Shelter Forum: working group for UK-based shelter practitioners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Tom Scott-Smith participated in the day-long meeting of Emergency Shelter practitioners, which took place on 26th May 2017 at Oxford Brookes University. He presented the interim findings and approach of the Architectures of Displacement Project for feedback by practitioners and engaged in dialogue all day on the nature and evolution of humanitarian shelter policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Policy Discussion, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The event 'Designs for a Refugee Shelter Rooftop' took place at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, on Tuesday 25th February at 5.30pm. It considered the urgent questions surrounding the shelter of refugees in cities, based around a collaborative summer school between students at the University of Cambridge and the Technical University in Berlin. Dr. Mark E. Breeze took part in the event, discussing the designs for a temporary rooftop refugee shelter, discussing the findings of the Architectures of Displacement Project, and reflecting on the profound surrounding the presence of refugees in the urban fabric. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/events/rooftop-shelter |
| Description | Public Seminar Series, Refugee Studies Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration, 7-part Public Seminar Series, Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze in Michaelmas Term 2016 This interdisciplinary seminar series examined the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. Spread over seven weeks, it raised the following questions: What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design. The seminar series complemented the issue of Forced Migration Review Emergency Shelter, which was published at the same time. The schedule was as follows: Week 1: Wednesday 12th October, 5pm 'Emergency Shelter: Reflections on a New European Infrastructure' (Tom Scott-Smith, University of Oxford). Week 2: Wednesday 19th October, 5pm. 'Building Structures in Calais Refugee Camp' (Grainne Hassett, Hassett Ducatez Architects and the University of Limerick). Week 3: Wednesday 2nd November, 5pm. 'Dwelling in an emergency shelter: between geopolitics and everyday life' (Irit Katz, University of Cambridge). Week 4: Wednesday 9th November, 5pm. 'The settlement approach: integrating programming at community level' (Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre Geneva). Week 5: Wednesday 16th November, 5pm. 'Complicit or emancipatory? Architecture, space and design in humanitarian operations' (Camillo Boano, University College London). Week 6: Wednesday 23rd November, 5pm. 'Lessons from 15 years of post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects in India'. (Tom Newby, CARE International). Week 7: Wednesday 30th November, 5pm. 'Shelter in flux'. Catherine Brun, Oxford Brookes University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/emergency-shelter-and-forced-migration-public-seminar-series-michaelma... |
| Description | Refugee Shelter: Design, building and engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark E. Breeze participated in a panel with researchers and practitioners at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on 30 April 2018. It discussed the implications of the winning entry to the RIBA President's Awards for Research 2017 Housing category, which was written by a team of researchers from the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. "Their work highlights the neglected issue of indoor environmental conditions that displaced people are exposed to; conditions that are often extreme and can have serious implications for the health of the occupants. The reality is that there are 10's of millions living in these 'temporary' camps, which often endure for years on end. Using literature review and collecting on-site longitudinal data and occupant interviews from camps in Jordan, the team sought to understand and document the range of climatic conditions faced by those living in the camps, the problems caused and the adaptions made to alleviate the situation." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-shelter-design-building-and-engagement-tickets-43742106819?af... |
| Description | Screening at Norwegian Archfest 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Screening at Norwegian Archfest, 23rd August 2022, part of the Norwegian International Film Festival at Haugesund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.filmfestivalen.no/f/shelter-without-shelter/630 |
| Description | Screening at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Screening at Cinema LantarenVenster Rotterdam, 7th October 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.affr.nl/en/films/shelter-without-shelter/ |
| Description | Screening at the Architecture and Design Film Festival, New Zealand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival involved a series of screenings across New Zealand, including: AUCKLAND Thu 5 May 8:15pm | Mon 9 May 11:45am | Mon 16 May 10:30am | Mon 23 May 7:15pm EMBASSY, WELLINGTON Thu 19 May 8:15pm | Thu 26 May 6:15pm CUBA, WELLINGTON Mon 23 May 8:00pm | Mon 30 May 7:45pm PETONE, WELLINGTON Wed 25 May 11:00am | Tue 31 May 11:00am DUNEDIN Thu 2 June 8:00pm | Wed 15 June 1:15pm CHRISTCHURCH Thu 9 June 8:00pm | Thu 16 June 12:00pm | Tue 21 June 10:00am HAVELOCK NORTH Fri 10 June 12:30pm | Sat 18 June 12:30pm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cdn.rialto.co.nz/cdn/resources/contentupload/documents/filmfestivals/radff/radff2022_program... |
| Description | Screening at the Urban Eye Film Festival, Bucharest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Screening at the 2022 Urban Eye Film Festival in Bucharest, 10th November 2022 at Cinema Elvire Popesco. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://urbaneye.ro/en/films/shelter-without-shelter/ |
| Description | Shelter Without Shelter Screening and Discussion at McGill University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This event took place on February 3rd 2022, and was hosted by the McGill Refugee Research Group and ISID. It involved an online screening of the film 'Shelter without Shelter' followed by an hour long Q&A online. The event was live broadcast and reached well over 100 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mcgill.ca/isid/channels/event/shelter-without-shelter-online-screening-discussion-direct... |
| Description | Structures of Protection: Rethinking Refugee Shelter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This international workshop, Structures of Protection: Rethinking Refugee Shelter was organised by the Architectures of Displacement project and held at St. Cross College, University of Oxford, between 18th and 20th July 2018. It brought together around twenty-five papers on different forms of shelter, aiming to widen public understanding about the lives and experiences of refugees and forced migrants. Participants came from third sector organisations, policy think tanks, and included journalists and academics. The event involved focused discussion about the natures, meanings, challenges, and possibilities of the architectures of displacement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Technology and the Refugee Crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Tom Scott-Smith gave a presentation at the event 'Technology and the Refugee Crisis' at the Southbank Centre in London on 18 June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/122912-technology-and-refugee-crisis-2017 |
| Description | The 3rd Annual Moesgaard Lecture. An Archaeology of Impermanence: current work on the material culture of the European Refugee Crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Dan Hicks delivered the 3rd Annual Moesgaard Lecture at Moesgaard Museum Auditorium, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. The talk was entitled An Archaeology of Impermanence: current work on the material culture of the European Refugee Crisis. It took place on Friday 8 September, 1pm-4pm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Futures of Architecture: 'Better' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event 'The Futures of Architecture' featured Daisy Ginsberg in conversation with Mark E Breeze. It took place on May 01, 2018 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM in Lecture Room 1 of the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/events/the-futures-of-architecture-better |
| Description | The Futures of Architecture: Form Follows Finance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This public conversation about the Futures of Architecture was held on May 15, 2018 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM in Lecture Room 1 of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. It featured Olly Wainwright in conversation with Mark E. Breeze |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/events/the-futures-of-architecture-form-follows-finance |
| Description | Towards a Different Architecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Mark Breeze gave a Keynote Lecture entitled 'Towards a Different Architecture', given at the Chinese Academy of the Arts, Nanjing University, China, in November 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |