Today is World Refugee Day. We are currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record with 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, according to the UNHCR. Among them are…
On Friday 1 March, students from the Master’s Degree in International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture, who, in the two weeks prior to the event, had taken part in a local…
Over the next two weeks, our students will take part in our local socio-spatial workshop, which this year will work once again with Barcelona’s Ciutat Refugi, a municipal program that…
Last Friday our students embarked on our annual field trip for an international urban regeneration studio on refugee integration in Thessaloniki, Greece. While past field trips have taken us to…
We are excited to announce the participation of our codirector Carmen Mendoza Arroyo as a speaker at the 8th International Conference on Building Resilience in Lisbon November 14-16, where she…
In our latest alumni interview, we catch up with former students Kimberly Pelkofsky (1983) and Shareen Elnaschie (1980), who completed our program in 2013. Two years ago, they started up…
Speaking at the plenary session at the Design for Humanity Summit in New York last Friday, our codirector emphasised the need to move away from refugee camp design and toward…
For two weeks in December, our students were immersed in our yearly workshop with a local partner on local issues, this time collaborating with Barcelona City Council’s Ciutat Refugi program…
This Friday, we welcome back former student of our master program Esther Menduiña as guest lecturer to hear about her experience during this past year working for the Norweigan Refugee…
A staggering 65 million forcibly displaced people around the world, over 21 million of them refugees, has pushed the the issue of shelter beyond the humanitarian sphere and into the…
