There are two public events happening in Lawrence Hall today and tomorrow focusing on aide with forced displacement.
Adaptive Shelter Workshop
Tuesday March 29, 2022
3:20-5:20pm in 206 Lawrence Hall
What kind of emergency shelter can be created with minimal supplies?
We invite you to a hands-on workshop that will consider how materials can be adapted to respond to changing conditions. Together, instructors and students will create fabric structures to examine a spectrum of protection and discuss what creates a feeling of safe refuge and what it means to have shelter in an uncertain world. In the process, we can examine how a single surface can influence how we connect to each other and to the external environment. This workshop provides a brief introduction to the complexity of creating simple shelters and is offered as a public participation companion to Earl Mark’s ARCH 4/584 adaptive rapid shelter for forcibly displaced people studio.
If you are interested in joining, please sign up here: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eL5PaNGklswDC8m
Adaptive Refugee Housing: global perspectives
Wednesday, March 30th at 5:30pm
115 Lawrence Hall
How can built environment professionals prepare for this era of forcible displacement?
Resource scarcity, natural disasters and armed conflicts are driving forced migration levels well above historical levels, with the number of forcibly displaced people estimated to be over 84 million according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. As the need for housing can be sudden and acute, architects, planners and other environmental designers must be equipped to quickly provide humane and agile responses.
This session assembles a global panel of faculty and practitioners concerned with the needs of refugees to speculate about this question and gather audience input in attempting to address it. They will humanize this growing challenge through video snapshots and personal stories connecting to migration. They will explain guidelines such as trauma-informed design and exemplars of empowering building collaborations, along with the many variables shaping the refugee experience that make general principles subordinate to situated approaches for generating housing solutions. Finally, the session will provide resources for further information and action.
Featuring: Nancy Cheng, UO Architecture (Moderator), Grace Aaraj (Archi-build LLC), John Arroyo (UO PPPM), Joachim Kieferle (Hochschule RheinMain), Earl Mark (University of Virginia), Kory Russel (UO Landscape Architecture & Environmental Studies), Marziah Zad (Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña)
These events are part of the Global Justice Program with funds provided by Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace.
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