Asylum for a design activist

Title: Asylum for a design activist
Creator: Ware, SueAnne
Relation: OASE: Journal for Architecture Vol. 96, p. 30-36
Relation: http://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/96
Publisher: nai010 Publishers
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: My practice is as a design activist. I explore physical catalysts for social and political change. Inevitability, the works I design and engage with are part of a larger political movement. In this essay I discuss two projects: the SIEVX Memorial (2002-ongoing) and Bunny Refugees (2015). I've selected these projects in particular because of their subject matter; the on-going plight of refugees is internationally becoming less and less about hope and generosity for those in desperate need to find refuge and more about abject violations of human rights. What many socially engaged designers and others, including the collective authors of publications as exemplified by Design Like You Give a Damn edited by Architecture for Humanity in 2006, fail to do quite often, is offer a criticality about their work. I am not advocating that these publications are not valuable, but my intention here is not to simply describe the work; I wish to interrogate it.
Subject: design activism; SIEVX Memorial; Bunny Refugees; architecture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324150
Identifier: uon:24970
Identifier: ISSN:0169-6238
Language: eng
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