The work is the result of a three-year collaboration between MIT's Future Heritage Lab and the camp's residents, showcasing how design can address emotional and cultural needs that standardized humanitarian aid often ignores. Key Concepts and Inventions
The book highlights over 20 projects where residents modified their standardized environments to suit their real-world social and physical needs: Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refu...
(2021) is a bilingual (English/Arabic) book that documents the ingenious ways Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan use art and design to reclaim their agency and humanity . The work is the result of a three-year
: Inventions like a chess set carved from a broomstick or a baby swing made from recycled school desks. Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refu...