Designing for the Refugee Crisis
Monday, May 9, 20166:30 PM - 9:30 PMBST
| The Building Centre, 26 Store St
London, GBRelated
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.
Speakers:
Karen McVeigh (chair), senior news reporter, the Guardian
Uli Schmid, Senior Expert, Humanitarian Action Program, Innovation & Planning Agency Association
Dr. Harriet Harriss, Senior Tutor in Interior Design & Architecture, Royal College of Art
Tom Scott-Smith, Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Humanitarian Innovation Project, University of Oxford
Johan Karlsson, Interim Managing Director, Better Shelter
This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre.
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