Architecture & Design Museum, Helsinki — Building D10 October 2025 – 27 September 2026 Where refuge meets imagination “Escape to Moominvalley” explores how we build, imagine, and remember home. Opening at the Architecture & Design Museum in Helsinki, the exhibition…
Better Shelter will deliver 3,139 shelters to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support safer living conditions for internally displaced people across the Gaza Strip. 1,104 of these have already been shipped and will be transferred into Gaza once…
3 October to 9 October, 2025. Step into a fluffy encounter where wool takes center stage! Rediscover the age-old wool fibre through co-creation, craftsmanship and contemporary design in the Fluffy Encounters Wool Exhibition and Workshop. Wool is soft, strong and…
STOCKHOLM, 30 September 2025. Better Shelter has appointed Stina Götbrink and Ebba Grythberg to its Board of Directors. Both bring long experience from business, diplomacy, and sustainability, and will help the organisation expand its work to give families forced to…
Better Shelter joins UNICEF Sweden for En dag för alla barn (A Day for Every Child) at Kungsträdgården: a vibrant, free public event celebrating children’s right to play, rest, and enjoy life to the fullest. As part of this day,…
Many countries, including Sweden, the US and the UK, are cutting down on their international aid funding. At the same time, over 120 million people are displaced from their homes, nearly twice as many as a decade ago. Businesses, foundations,…
As governments worldwide cut back on aid, Better Shelter launches a new fund to protect the right to a home. Never before have so many people been forcibly displaced. In response to significant reductions in international aid, the Swedish non-profit…
När världens regeringar minskar sitt bistånd, kliver Better Shelter fram – med en ny fond som ska säkra rätten till ett hem för människor på flykt. Aldrig tidigare har så många människor befunnit sig på flykt. Som ett svar på…
Building on our commitment to environmental sustainability, we have conducted a workshop using the 3 Horizons methodology. With this approach, we could map out the present (Horizon 1), define our long-term vision (Horizon 3), and identify the innovations required to…
In 2024, an independent consultant provided guidance on managing and considering the end-of-life of the Relief Housing Unit (RHU), contributing to circular economy efforts within humanitarian shelter, and offering recommendations for future action. As part of this study, 95 individuals…