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CAMP ing
affordable bottom-up-top-down & informal-formal collaborative developments for/with/by refugees
Informal and formal refugee camps in Calais photo: http://bit.ly/1THziKi accessed 14 March, 2016.
CAMPing , when formal - informal and bottom-up - top-down work together and collaborate ! How can we develop strategies for refugee camp improvements where informal joins formal and bottom-up works together with top-down? These questions are emerging on different fields of architectural and urban planning advancements. The refugee architecture should also realise that the diverse key players have to understand each other and have to collaborate . At the current state of the refugee camp developments top-down initiative rarely meet with bottom-up needs and informal innovations are almost never supported by formal strategies. The problems and the potential solutions are the same for both sides but there are still no tools to bring the different interests closer to each other. The fence between the formal and informal refugee camps in Calais perfectly presents this contradiction. There is no communication between the stakeholders and there is absolutely no teamwork . Legal-, financial- and social rules and norms do not allow and support partnerships. CAMPing - abstract by Architecture for Refugees 1/2
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While festival campings and their organisational-, financial- and social frame secure a resilient and flexible structure for formal-informal and top-down-bottom-up improvements; refugee camp architecture and urban planning have almost zero place for participation , self-building , user defined needs and collaboration . How can we compare the diverse camp and urban planning strategies and how can we create new models for further improvements? What can we learn from comparing the characteristics of the refugee camps in Calais or in Za’atari with the festival campings in Glastonbury or in Budapest? The goal is to analyse the characteristics of the formal-informal and top-down-bottom-up models and to find new tools and strategies where all the stakeholders can work together to reach a common set of defined goals .
Glastonbury festival in England photo: http://bit.ly/1QQOyRv accessed 14 March, 2016.
Keywords affordable, bottom-up & top-down, collaborative development, formal & informal, refugees Authors Architecture for Refugees - Dennise Castillo, Henrik Ceccaroli, Zsófia Glatz and Bence Komlósi
CAMPing - abstract by Architecture for Refugees 2/2