Title & Author:

Design to live : everyday inventions from a refugee camp / edited by Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, and Melina Philippou.

Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

324 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Perspectives on Life at the Camp -- Placed in a Timeless Base -- The Power of Writing -- Working in a Field of Traps -- Landscape -- Designs That Connect Residents with the Surrounding Landscape -- Vertical Garden -- Kitchen -- Oven -- Pigeon Breeding -- Intimacy -- Designs That Mediate Intimacy within the Family and the Community -- Outdoor Majlis -- Entrance Hall -- Courtyard -- Fellowship -- Designs That Question Life under Cultural Austerity -- Rocking Crib -- Plush Toy -- Spinning Top -- Chess Set -- Desert Castle -- Majlis -- Tea Set -- Coffee Station -- Fountain -- Energy -- Designs That Enable Access to Resources -- Water Cart -- Water Storage -- Water Faucet -- Perspectives on Humanitarian Design -- Life Worth Living -- Reverse Urbanization -- Humanitarian Design Gap
Text in English and Arabic.

Summary:

This book shows how refugees use art and design to transform their living environments, restoring humanity within circumstances that seem aimed at depriving them of it. Featuring more than twenty projects created by Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan, Design to Live offers a new way of understanding design as a subversive worldmaking practice and as tool for reclaiming agency in conditions of forced displacement. The projects?including a vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting on the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing, made from recycled school desks; and a chess set, carved from broomsticks?showcase the discrepancy between standardized humanitarian design and the real sociocultural needs of refugees.00This bilingual book in English and Arabic documents designs by refugees through architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, and texts by the camp residents, humanitarian workers, and researchers who collaborated on the book across cultural and disciplinary borders. Design to Live is the product of a three-year joint project of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and the Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, supported by CARE-Jordan and the German Jordanian University.

ISBN:

9780262542876 paperback
0262542870 paperback

Subject:

Azraq (Refugee camp)
Refugees Jordan Social conditions.
Refugee camps Jordan.
Material culture.
Art and design.
Réfugiés Jordanie Conditions sociales.
Camps de réfugiés Jordanie.
Culture matérielle.
Art et design.
material culture (discipline)
Refugee camps
Refugees Social conditions
Jordan

Added entries:

Aksamija, Azra, 1976- editor.
Majzoub, Raafat, editor.
Philippou, Melina, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315786
Call No.: 315786
Copy: 1
Status: Available