Increased Value for UN Humanitarian Aid Packaging is a design made for UNICEF to increase the value that their packaging holds after primary use. By pairing the box ID with the end user it is possible to prepare the box for a second life either as furniture in a tent camp, as a field office or to provide games or educational material for children. The design is made for 38 different box-IDs, with as many different receivers.

Increased value for humanitarian aid packaging was inspired by the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 that rendered numerous people homeless leaving them deprived of all their belongings, forced to start a life in a refugee camp.

Every year millions of people all over the world are relocated into refugee camps, some the size of small cities. UNICEF and other aid organizations helps recreate everyday life for the families living here. Turning packaging into furniture, games or educational material will not eliminate their problems, but hopefully make them a bit easier to overcome.

The concept is developed for 38 different box-IDs with as many receivers. The boxes can either go to families as furniture, to children with games printed on the outside or to field hospitals and be turned into a stackable shelving system to keep order in medicine or office supplies. Most material sent from the UNICEF are packed in specific boxes that are custom-made for their exact content, which means that the box-ID reveals who the receiver is long before production.

Designed by
Martin Jørgensen - Denmark