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ICOON offers refugees a tool for communication
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ICOON offers refugees a tool for communication
Thought leader: Barry Malone, editor of Al Jazeera English
Arts students start carnival association together with refugees
One story from an individual refugee says more than a thousand pictures
Thought leader: Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
Thought leader: Jason Buzi, American entrepreneur
Thought leader: Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist
Dutch designers find possibilities for asylum seekers to work despite rules
Berlin volunteers compile phrasebook with basic sentences in different languages
Cameron Sinclair's RE:BUILD is a re-deployable building system for displaced populations
Studio Refugee matches designers and refugees for product design
In the Berlin CUCULA workshop, refugees make and sell furniture designed by Enzo Mari
‘De Voorkamer’ introduces a social design method for integration
Flatshare website already operational in nine countries, 500 matches made
Thought leader: Alexander Betts, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
What Design Can Do & IKEA Foundation announce global design challenge to help refugees
German design studio In a Nutshell takes the edge of the idea that refugees are taking over Europe
OpenIDEO's Refugee Education Challenge seeks education solutions for refugees
Interactive map of refugee movements selected among London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year
UNHCR orders 10.000 Better Shelters that were jointly developed with IKEA Foundation
An evening on how design and art can help refugees