P1 Explore Lab 9 LvS
Transcript of P1 Explore Lab 9 LvS
“There is no justifi cation for making people live in captivity stripped of the right to work, based on the fact that they were born on the other side of a border.” - Jacob Appel
seeks shelter from danger
political
seeks better opportunity
economical
“Available information suggests there were 42 million forcibly dis-placed people worldwide at the end of 2008. The United Nations Offi ce for the Coordination of Hu-manitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that there are an additional 25 million people who have been dis-placed due to natural di-sasters.”
- UN Refugee Agency
refugee origin
refugee destination
“But no government, how-ever benign and generous, can be expected to allow hundreds of thousands of people from a neighboring country to enjoy a high-er standard of living than the native population, so great pressure exists to cap the amount of aid available or at least to avoid its conspicuous dis-play.”
- Jim Lewis, NY Times
"Asylum policy is a mat-ter for governments, not the Red Cross... It is our job to meet the needs of people caught up in refu-gee crises, not to judge them."
- Sir Nicholas, IFRC
voluntary repatriation to the home country
resettlement in anoth-er country
permanent integration in country of asylum
“Can a border be infra-structure and provide a frame for non conformity? Could transnational col-laboration create an ur-banism beyond the property line?”
- Teddy Cruz
case study Myanmar
As of December 31, 2005, the largest source coun-tries of refugees are Af-ghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar, Sudan, and the Palestinian Territories.
By nationality, the main benefi ciaries of the UNH-CR-facilitated resettle-ment programmes in 2008 were refugees from Myanmar (23,200).
More than three quarters of the world’s refugees seek asylum in neighbour-ing countries or the im-mediate region.
refugees in asia
myanmar
political unrest since 1962
ethnic cleansing indige-nous cultures
natural disaster cyclone Nargis May 2008
emigration is illegal
thailand
didn’t sign 1951 UNCHR Refugees Convention
150,000 burmese in camps150,000 burmese in cities
half camp population < 18
temporary bamboo shelterscamps since 1984 (25 yrs)
case study : modern nomadic life
design
what are generic charac-teristics of settlements?
what is the potential in the architectural scale?
what is the role of space in the shifting identity?
does the socio-urban fab-ric survive the changes?
unclaimed territory
methodology and planning
theoretical research- temporary settlements- extraterritorialism- autarky and trade- integration
fi eld research- nomadic- camp life- urban ghetto- resettlement