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ICOON offers refugees a tool for communication
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‘The term migrants dehumanizes refugees’
Thought leader: Barry Malone, editor of Al Jazeera English
Integration goes best partying
Arts students start carnival association together with refugees
Refugees’ accounts tell the real story
One story from an individual refugee says more than a thousand pictures
Cucula works with, not for refugees
In the Berlin CUCULA workshop, refugees make and sell furniture designed by Enzo Mari
Encounters in a self-built living room
‘De Voorkamer’ introduces a social design method for integration
Refugees Welcome fights fear for room sharing
Flatshare website already operational in nine countries, 500 matches made
‘Displacement will mark this century’
Thought leader: Alexander Betts, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
‘Migration is essential to human survival’
Thought leader: Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
Refugia, a separate nation for refugees
Thought leader: Jason Buzi, American entrepreneur
‘Europe can easily receive millions of refugees’
Thought leader: Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist
Legal loopholes in work rules for refugees
Dutch designers find possibilities for asylum seekers to work despite rules
Phrasebook for refugees
Berlin volunteers compile phrasebook with basic sentences in different languages
A new approach to building for refugees
Cameron Sinclair's RE:BUILD is a re-deployable building system for displaced populations
Products to tell refugee’s stories
Studio Refugee matches designers and refugees for product design
Challenge: What Design Can Do for Refugees
What Design Can Do & IKEA Foundation announce global design challenge to help refugees
The refugee crisis explained
German design studio In a Nutshell takes the edge of the idea that refugees are taking over Europe
Refugees deserve better education
OpenIDEO's Refugee Education Challenge seeks education solutions for refugees
The Refugee Project visualizes refugee streams
Interactive map of refugee movements selected among London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year
Better Shelter: IKEA’s refugee housing solution
UNHCR orders 10.000 Better Shelters that were jointly developed with IKEA Foundation
State of Shelter: can creativity help refugees?
An evening on how design and art can help refugees