AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Refugees and Migrants
KEYWORDS
integration, displaced people, Refugee Camps
COUNTRY
Germany
DESIGNED BY
MORE THAN SHELTERS was founded in 2012 with the goal to develop and design innovative solutions for the global refugee crisis. We are a social enterprise based in Germany and Jordan, working with an interdisciplinary team, refugee communities and partners from the humanitarian and social sectors to develop, test and scale next generation impact solutions.
OUR VISION: All people that are forced to leave home forever find peace, safety and a prosperous future within their new neighborhoods.
WEBSITE
http://www.morethanshelters.org/eng/
Integrated Humanitarian Design
We restore dignity and human rights with displaced communities worldwide
with integrated designs
Worldwide we see the highest number of refugees since WW2. More and more refugee camps are emerging worldwide, where people live on average 12 years. In Europe people live mostly 3 to 4 years in refugee shelters. During this time they are cut off from education, work and freedom, their future prospects are bleak. Often the accommodations are designed with the simplest means. The infrastructure is inferior, the spatial design is poor and the habitats are therefore tight, dirty, loud and miserable.
Our methodology of “Integrated Humanitarian Design" combines product design, social design, architecture, social sciences, eco-system design and others disciplines. We design to transform: - places of misery into sustainable habitats, - segregated communities to integrated neighborhoods, - ego-systems into eco-systems, - beneficiaries into active citizens. We redesigned refugee camps and accommodations in Zaatari (Jordan), Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Ideomeni and Lesbos since 2012.