Amorós Elorduy, N;
Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps.
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Design Research in Architecture.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask. Is it relevant to look at camps through an urban lens and focus on their built environment? Which analytical benefits can architectural and design tools provide to refugee assistance and specifically to young children’s learning? And which advantages can assemblage thinking and situated knowledges bring about in analysing, understanding and transforming long-term refugee camps? Responding to the extreme lack of information about East African camps, Nerea Amorós Elorduy has built contextualised knowledge – nuanced, situated and participatory – to describe, study and transform the East African long-term camps, and uncover hidden agencies in refugee assistance. She uses architecture as a means to create new knowledge collectively, include more local voices and speculate on how to improve the educational landscape for young children. With this book, Amorós Elorduy brings nuance, contextualisation and empathy to the study and management of long-term refugee camps in East Africa. It is empathy, she argues, that will help change mindsets, decolonise humanitarian refugee assistance and its study. Crossing architecture, humanitarian aid and early childhood development, this book offers many practical learnings.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800080119 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800080119 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800080119 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Nerea Amorós Elorduy, 2021 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Elorduy, N.A. 2021. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps. London, UCL Press. https://doi .org /10 .14324 /111 .9781800080119 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons .org /licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to re-use any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder |
| Keywords: | architecture, East Africa, refugee camps, schools, learning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132857 |
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