{"product_id":"design-to-live-everyday-inventions-from-a-refugee-camp-paperback","title":"Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAzra Aksamija\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRaafat Majzoub\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMelina Philippou\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. \u003ci\u003eDesign to Live\u003c\/i\u003e documents designs, inventions, and artworks created by Syrian refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative innovations--including the vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting in the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing made from recycled desks; and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material scarcity, unforgiving desert climate, and cultural isolation of the camp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in close collaboration with the residents of the camp, with text in both English and Arabic, Design to Live, reflects two perspectives on the camp: people living and working in Azraq and designers reflecting on humanitarian architecture within the broader field of socially engaged art and design. Architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, narratives, and stories offer vivid testimony to the imaginative and artful ways that residents alter and reconstruct the standardized humanitarian design of the camp--and provide models that can be replicated elsewhere. The book is the product of a three-year project undertaken by MIT Future Heritage Lab, researchers and students with Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, CARE, Jordan, and the German-Jordanian University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopublication with Future Heritage Lab, MIT\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAzra Aksamija, an artist and architectural historian, is Director and Founder of the MIT Future Heritage Lab (FHL) and Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture and the Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. Raafat Majzoub, an architect, artist, and writer, is Director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices, and Lecturer in the Architecture and Design Department at the American University of Beirut. Melina Philippou is an urban designer, Program Director of FHL, and a teaching fellow in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.29 x 6.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768170610976,"sku":"9780262542876","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/984ee272322e87170fee38ea3fee4e28.webp?v=1780326308","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/design-to-live-everyday-inventions-from-a-refugee-camp-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}