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More design, less innovation

Over recent decades, the word innovation has proliferated across multiple industries and is widely drawn upon to tackle many kinds of problems. In the case of shelter and settlement planning for displaced populations, the pursuit of innovation by the humanitarian…

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The humanitarian-architect divide

Media coverage of forced migration tends to repeat the old, tired imagery of tents and camps, ignoring how often displaced people end up living in a much wider range of shelters. Many forced migrants live in ordinary rented apartment blocks…

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The pavements and slums of Dhaka

The slums of Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, have traditionally provided shelter for the country’s environmentally displaced poor. Recent increases in storms and flooding have diminished the liveability of the country’s coastal and rural regions; unable to fish, farm or safely…

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