December 20, 2018
Research of Professor Hajo Neis, Briana Meier, and Tomoki Furukawazono has been published on the “Urban Planning” (ISSN: 2183-7635).
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/1668
Neis, H., Meier, B., & Furukawazono, T. (2018). Welcome City: Refugees in Three German Cities. Urban Planning, 3(4), 101-115. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i4.1668
Abstract: Since late 2015, the authors have studied the refugee crisis in Europe. In this article, we analyze local factors that are significant for urban planning to include in an integration plan through case studies in three cities in Germany. We have chosen to study Germany because of the country’s touted Willkommen Kultur (welcome culture), which was prompted in large part by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “Flüchtlinge Willkommen” (“refugees welcome”) stance. Now, three years after Chancellor Merkel’s declaration to the world, although international and national policies set many parameters for refugee integration, responses to the uncertainty of the situation are fundamentally informed by local contexts. Germany has adopted a policy of distributing refugees to communities throughout the country according to the so-called “Königstein Key”, which sets quotas for each state according to economic capacity. We have selected case study cities and a county that are at different scales and regions: Borken in Hessen (13,500 people), Kassel County (200,000), and Essen, a larger city (600,000). Here we investigate the ways in which German citizens and refugees interact and integrate, with a focus on the social-spatial aspects of refugee experiences and the impacts on urban planning policy, urban morphology, building typology, and pattern language formation. Beyond crisis, we are looking at how refugees can and will try to integrate into their host countries, cities, and neighborhoods and start a new life and how host communities respond to refugee arrival. Urban architecture projects for housing and work opportunities that help the process of integration are part of this study. Particularly, in this article, we investigate the reality on the ground of the positive Willkommen Kultur and the high expectations and implied promises that were set in 2015 by Chancellor Angela Merkel and German society.
December 15, 2018
The book about the result of the studio instructed Prof. Howard Davis has been published.
This book shows the result of a studio involving the design of prototypical housing and related facilities for refugees and migrants. The first term of the studio began with a short competition, sponsored by IDeA, involving housing for refugees in one of three cities: Amman, Berlin and Nairobi. The studio won three prizes in the competition, including one first prize for the Amman entry.
http://www.idevelopment.us/2018-results/
https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu/place-and-displacement-architecture-students-design-prize-winning-spaces-refugees
November 28, 2018
Research of the cluster 1 of Refugee Pattern Language has been published in the PURPLSOC 2017 Proceedings.
https://www.purplsoc.org/the-books/
October 27, 2018
Presentation by Lane Madich, Rachel Lozeau, Angelo DeBlase, Professor Hajo Neis: “A Refugee Pattern Language – RPL Cluster 4: Arrival City: Urban Life, Buildings, and Infrastracture” at PUARL 10 Year Anniversary Conference in Portland.
https://refugee.uoregon.edu/pattern-language/
July 7, 2018
Presentation by Professor Hajo Neis: “A Refugee Pattern Language – RPL Cluster 2: Leaving Place – Arrival Country” at XXV ISUF Conference in Krasnoyarsk city, Russia.
http://conf.sfu-kras.ru/en/isuf2018
October 19-21, 2017
Presentation by Professor Hajo Neis and Tomoki Furukawazono: “Arrival City: Refugees in Three + One German Cities” and”A REFUGEE PATTERN LANGUAGE: Cluster One – The Refugee Family ” at 2nd PURPLSOC World Conference 2017 in Krems, Austria.
https://refugee.uoregon.edu/pattern-language/
http://www.purplsoc.org/conference2017/
September 27-29, 2017
Presentation by Professor Hajo Neis: “Arrival City: Refugees in Three German Cities” at XXIV ISUF Conference in Valencia.
http://valencia2017isufh.com/