London Design Museum
Our shelter won the Beazley Award and was exhibited at the London Design Museum along with the other winners and nominated designs. You can read more about the exhibition here.
Märta Terne
Follow up: CORE RELIEF workshop by LATRA
Core Relief workshop by LATRA in Kara Tepe transit site, Lesvos, Greece between 3-9 Oct, 2016. During a week in October, the design agency LATRA invited a cross-disciplinary group of designers, architects and humanitarian experts to discuss, develop and improve…
Better Shelter donates shelters to unique UNDP & CodersTrust project
The online IT education platform CodersTrust has joined forces with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to create a pilot program to teach young Bangladeshis the technical coding, communication and freelancing skills they need start earning a living in the international…
SWEDEN: Better Shelter displayed in Tekniska Museet exhibition
This is Rahel’s phone. Fearing forced military recruitment, Rahel fled Eritrea in 2015. Together with a friend, she left with nothing but the clothes she was wearing, and her plan was to reach Sweden where she has a family. Rahel…
MoMA includes Better Shelter in its permanent collection
PRESS RELEASE New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has one of the world’s biggest collections of modern art, with over 200,000 works from around the world. The collection is constantly expanding, and in its latest selection process the…
MoMA tar in Better Shelter i sin permanenta konstsamling
PRESSMEDDELANDE 12 October 2016 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) i New York har en av världens största moderna konstsamlingar, med över 200 000 verk från hela världen. Konstsamlingen utvidgas konstant, och i senaste urvalet valdes Better Shelters nödbostad in. Den…
BANGLADESH: UNDP supported RHU classroom
The IT education network Coders Trust has joined forces with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to create a pilot program, Youth Employment through Skills (YES), to teach young Bangladeshis the technical coding, communication and freelancing skills they need start earning a living in the international…
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter at MoMA
The exhibition Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter opened this weekend at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as the UNGA week came to an end at the UN headquarters. Sean Anderson, curator of the exhibition, aims to…
Temporary shelter in a seemingly permanent situation
A lot is being discussed on the topic of temporary shelter vs permanent or semi-permanent housing: why do architects and aid organisations continue designing and setting up tents and temporary shelter in refugee camps while history shows us that refugees…
GREECE: Open call for designers!
UPDATE: CALL CLOSED on Sep 23rd Designers, creatives, humanitarians and makers – join Better Shelter at CORE RELIEF, a 7-day (3-9 Oct) multinational humanitarian non-profit design innovation lab on the Greek island of Lesvos, organised by Architecture & design agency LATRA. The workshop…