Creating design solutions to improve refugee camps

Project Earth 2 wants to propose a different approach towards refugees and refugee camps and generate design ideas to be implemented in existing refugee camps around the world. Rather than conceiving refugee camps as storage facilities to fulfill basic human needs and refugees as temporary inhabitants, we encourage you to zoom out and consider the refugee camps as an instrument and an opportunity to activate deserted areas of Europe. Design refugee camps as stable settlements and as a changing structure that can grow, adapt and develop. How refugee camps can be flexible and grow in an organize way as their population increase? How can they transform from a temporary shelter into a stable settlement, providing proper living conditions and becoming the cities of tomorrow?

Ideas and solutions created through Cities of Tomorrow competition will be delivered to organizations and institutions working on-site such as UNCHR

With your contribution, you are supporting young talent development giving chance to committed designers to establish connections with communities, providing them an opportunity to participate in designing an architecture intervention fostering social development. At the same time it will contribute to expand the community of committed architects, towards a more aware and active designers expanding their range of action.

About Project Earth 2:

Project Earth 2 is an organization creating architectural and design solutions for two main challenges of

underdeveloped areas:

- Improve the housing and urban quality: Provide access to inclusive, sustainable and adequate shelter and

improve the living conditions in existing urban areas through architectural design and interventions.

- Tackle the consequences that climate change produce in communities and settlements: Research and reflect upon more sustainable and adaptive design solutions applicable to existing areas and settlements in situation of risk because of the consequences of climate change. For example, new settlements for the climate migrants and how to do it with a restricted budget.

For further information you can visit our website or contact us by email:

www.projectearth2.org | [email protected]

Thank you for your support!