REFUGEEDAILY REFUGEE DAILY LIBYA WEEKLY
———— Monday / December 27 / 2010 / No.000,001 ————
Publisher: Tripoli Refugee Press Editors: Yi Xu, Xun Ji, Yifan Xue Publish Time: 2020 Summer Site: Tripoli, Libya www.refugeedaily.com
01 REFUGEE DAILY A SECTION DESCRIBING THE REFUGEE’S ESCAPE HISTORY Academic Work, 2020 FALL Instructor:Lin Duoduo Site: Tripoli,Libya Team:Yi Xu,Yifan Xue,Xun Ji Contribution: Concept(65%), Research(60%), Diagram(50%), Modeling(45%), Rendering Drawing(50%)
Reminiscent of the form of newspaper, the miserable past of the refugees was recorded and restored. We also reconstructed the section of the ship according to the refugee’s suffering when they fled. The profile of ship comprises three parts: a factory where refugees are trafficked by smugglers, a detention center where they were illegally sent across the border, and a refugee camp where they were quarantined when they arrived in Europe. The history in which refugees' economic, political and cultural rights were deprived was described by means of metaphor. The first space displays the contradictions and tensions in the geographical landscape of capitalism. Neocolonialism civilizes and tamed the other under the surface, revealing the miserable exploitation of refugees. The second space, through Michel Foucault's archetypes of Discipline and Punish as well as Panopticon, demonstrates the brutal punishment and control imposed by the authorities on refugees. The third space, inspired by the The Truman Show, creates a scene where the pseudo happy refugee community performed as a propaganda culture and campaign tool for politicians in the third receiving country. In the whole process of the scheme, architectural design was more like a materialized practice of thinking. Narrative served as one of the most pivotal vehicle to define a refugee problem or even more, enabling me to comprehend the latent world from another perspective.
There is a fairy tale that the Libyan people compete to chant which called:Udea and her seven brothers. One day, the brothers set out and told their aunt that if their mother had a daughter, to wave a white handkerchief, and they would return at once;. It was a daughter, but the aunt wished to be rid of the boys, so she waved a sickle. The daughter, Udea, grew up not knowing about her brothers. One day, an older child taunted her for driving her brothers away, who were forever roaming the world; she questioned her mother and set out to find them. Her mother gave her a camel, some food, a cowrie shell about the camel's neck as a charm, an African and his wife to take care of her. On the second day, Barka told Udea to get off the camel so that his wife could ride in her place. The wife was close by and told Barka to leave Udea alone. Udea called out for her mother to no avail and Barka threw the girl to the ground. The wife climbed onto the camel and Udea walked on the ground, her bare feet cut up because of the stones on her path. Udea abandoned by them, she have no choice but to walk alone. One day, Udea passed a city, where they were told of the castle where the brothers lived. However, they accepted her without question. Her tears of joy left white marks on her face. One alarmed brother took a cloth and rubbed the mark until the pitch was gone. The brother asked her who had painted her skin black, to which she would not answer. She finally relented, describing the treatment she received during her travels. Here her new journey begins……
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