An initiative that aims to green and improve the living conditions in a refugee camp in south Lebanon.
Despite all the hard work, we were upset that we had to cancel our work with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and their Scarcity and Creativity Studio . AHO made some designs for us, but security concerns of students working in the camp and bureaucratic delays in Lebanon prevented us from having the team visit Bourj Al Shamali and build their design. The aim was to design and build a workshop…
We are very pleased to be joining the Public Lab community as a Public Lab chapter. This is our rationale: Background and Problem Refugee camps are transitory solutions that, as they endure, end up becoming informally constructed cities with a strong negative imprint on the local environment. An example of this is Bourj Al Shamali Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon. Founded in 1948, it has now taken on the air…
Marianne Potvin, a PhD student at the urban planning department at Harvard University visited Bourj Al Shamali on Wednesday 5 August 2015. Marianne studies the intersection of humanitarianism and urbanism, and her aim for her Harvard-sponsored research in Lebanon was to learn and document how different aid agencies are dealing with the challenges of providing assistance in densely urbanised areas, and how (and if) they are using and developing new tools and…