REFUGEE DAILY

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.