Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp by Aksamija, Azra

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions,...
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Author: Azra Aksamija
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Language: English
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Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp by Aksamija, Azra

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

$79.13

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

$79.13
Author: Azra Aksamija
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.

This book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. Design to Live documents designs, inventions, and artworks created by Syrian refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative innovations--including the vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting in the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing made from recycled desks; and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material scarcity, unforgiving desert climate, and cultural isolation of the camp.

Written in close collaboration with the residents of the camp, with text in both English and Arabic, Design to Live, reflects two perspectives on the camp: people living and working in Azraq and designers reflecting on humanitarian architecture within the broader field of socially engaged art and design. Architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, narratives, and stories offer vivid testimony to the imaginative and artful ways that residents alter and reconstruct the standardized humanitarian design of the camp--and provide models that can be replicated elsewhere. The book is the product of a three-year project undertaken by MIT Future Heritage Lab, researchers and students with Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, CARE, Jordan, and the German-Jordanian University.

Copublication with Future Heritage Lab, MIT

Author: Azra Aksamija
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/19/2021
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.61w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780262542876

About the Author
Azra Aksamija, an artist and architectural historian, is Director and Founder of the MIT Future Heritage Lab (FHL) and Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture and the Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. Raafat Majzoub, an architect, artist, and writer, is Director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices, and Lecturer in the Architecture and Design Department at the American University of Beirut. Melina Philippou is an urban designer, Program Director of FHL, and a teaching fellow in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus.

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