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…
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…
Better Shelter is nominated for the Beazley Designs of the Year! There are 67 nominees in six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport, which will be exhibited at the London Design Museum between 24 November 2016 and 19 February 2017.…
“When there are no loud sounds, no planes, no shooting, I can make my kids go to sleep…”, Amina, mother of five, said. 57,000 refugees are currently stranded within the borders of Greece. More than 260,000 have arrived by sea during…
Exhibition: October 12th 2016 at the National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm A smartphone is an invaluable tool for those fleeing to escape armed conflicts and natural disasters. Facebook and Skype are apps that we take for granted in our daily…
Between 2015 and 2017, What Design Can Do organised the Refugee Challenge in partnership with UNHCR and the IKEA Foundation. This worldwide design contest addressed the growing influx of refugees escaping dire circumstances in their homelands in pursuit of improved…
Today, on World Refugee Day, we want to thank our supporters and also extend our thanks to our valued partners, the Ikea Foundation and UNHCR. One year ago, in June 2015, we delivered the first shipment of Better Shelter units. Then, little did we know that we…
The world and the people who live in it are constantly changing and moving. According to UNHCR, we are experiencing the largest number of people displaced since the Second World War, with more than 60 million people having fled their homes…
For two and a half years, Syrian jeweler Aboud Shalhoub tried to build a life in Turkey, having fled the war-torn Damascus, where his wife, Christine, and their two young children would remain until he could afford to relocate them.…
