From Shelters to Dwellings: The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Refugee Camp

From Shelters to Dwellings: The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Refugee Camp
Ayham Dalal
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h226 x 147mm - 300pg
13 Oct 2021 GE
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9783837658385
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In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation - a process that involved the dismantling and reassembling of the camp. This transformation is challenging its humanitarian order and disciplinary machine, while allowing refugees to construct dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. Caravans were turned into architectural elements and financial assets, and materials were negotiated in relation to prevailing politics and time. These practices not only humanized the shelter and the camp but also underlined the importance of a "right to appropriation" in a world where bottom-up practices of "habiting" are being increasingly repressed by the top-down production of "habitats".
Ayham Dalal is an architect, urban planner and artist born and raised in Syria. He holds a PhD in architecture from Technische Universitat Berlin and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the urban studies program at Vassar College in the USA. Between 2018 and 2021, Ayham was part of the CRC1265 "Re-Figurations of Space" at TU Berlin, and a research associate at Ifpo Amman (2017-2021). His research focuses on displacement, mobility, culture, identity and their impact on urban space.
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ISBN-13: 9783837658385
Published: 13 Oct 2021
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback
Height: 226mm
Width: 147mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 300

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