Refugee Transition Network: City as commons and transition to sustainable refugee futures

难民过渡网络：城市作为公地以及向可持续难民未来的过渡

• 批准号: AH/X004260/1
• 负责人: Maria Lujan Escalante
• 金额: $ 4.73万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX004260%2F1
• 关键词: Refugee; Transition; Network; City; commons

Transition Design is an emerging framework that proposes collaborative design-led practices as a vehicle to create new narratives and approaches needed to address complex (wicked) problems and transitions towards more sustainable futures. It has been developed and used with Traditional Ecological Knowledge Systems (TEK) found in indigenous and local communities to re-design visions of their own development and systemic change. There is little evidence of its application in the context of displaced populations. Our interest is to explore how this framework can be used to create new, much needed, narratives about urban refugee management, to transform the narratives of assimilation; a shift from the focus of "what refugees lack" and towards "what refugees bring".War, political-economical conflicts, and environmental disasters are bringing into the present and near futures unprecedented, forced, displaced population crises. Refugees, asylum seekers, forced migrants and stateless populations are subjects of foreign policies, regarded as victims of external conflicts, vulnerable, passive agents, when on the contrary, these populations are becoming at home within the host country struggles. Their knowledge, affections, political agencies and self-supported activities, have huge potential to inform systemic-level change that can aid local and global solutions, responsive to societal and environmental issues. The notion of border becomes key here, not just as a geographical fact, but as socially produced and politically productive; not just marking territory but also imaginaries, affections, and identities. Borders maintain a sense of us and them, our world and theirs. Thus, the refugee crisis does not only refer to the tragedy of lives uprooted from their own places, but also to the destabilisation of the host country's sense of self. Understanding territories not just as a property, state, or resource, but as a site of affective natural-social encounters, defines 'the commons', as a space for re-visioning subjective relations and imaginaries of self and others. 'Commoning' extends placemaking, and is concerned with affective encounters between humans and non-humans, nurturing grounds for fostering what Donna Haraway terms 'response-ability' - the ability to respond ethically to the demands of others with whom we share worlds. We find examples of 'common' theorists and practitioners working in spheres such as knowledge commons, open-source software, urban gardens, and the reclamation of cities. Our interest is to understand and support the refugee sites as 'commons'. The network will explore how Transition Design brings about a much needed shift in which communities are not just in harmony with the environment but also with all of its members, within and across borders. Traditional design approaches that were characterised by linear processes, and whose objective was the realisation of predictable and profitable solutions, have a history not just of failing but actually exacerbating systemic and wicked problems. The transition to sustainable refugee futures calls for new ways of designing that are based upon new narratives and deep paradigm transformation.

过渡设计是一个新兴的框架，它提出了以协作设计为主导的实践，作为创造新的叙述和方法的工具，以解决复杂（邪恶）的问题，并向更可持续的未来过渡。它是与土著和地方社区的传统生态知识系统一起开发和使用的，以重新设计其自身发展和系统变革的愿景。几乎没有证据表明它适用于流离失所人口。我们的兴趣是探索如何利用这一框架来创造新的，急需的，关于城市难民管理的叙述，改变同化的叙述;从“难民缺乏什么”的重点转向“难民带来什么”。战争，政治经济冲突和环境灾难正在给现在和不久的将来带来前所未有的，被迫的，流离失所的人口危机。难民、寻求庇护者、被迫移徙者和无国籍人口是外交政策的对象，被视为外部冲突的受害者、易受伤害的被动代理人，而恰恰相反，这些人口在东道国的斗争中变得如鱼得水。他们的知识、感情、政治机构和自我支持的活动具有巨大的潜力，可以为系统一级的变革提供信息，帮助地方和全球解决方案，应对社会和环境问题。在这里，边界的概念成为关键，它不仅是一个地理事实，而且是社会生产和政治生产;它不仅标志着领土，而且标志着身份、情感和身份。边界维持着我们和他们，我们的世界和他们的世界的感觉。因此，难民危机不仅指的是背井离乡的悲剧，也指的是东道国自我意识的不稳定。理解领土不仅仅是一种财产，状态或资源，而是作为情感自然-社会相遇的场所，将“公共”定义为重新审视自我和他人的主观关系和关系的空间。“共融”延伸了场所营造，关注人类与非人类之间的情感接触，为培养唐娜·哈拉维所说的“反应能力”提供了基础--对与我们共享世界的其他人的需求做出道德回应的能力。我们发现了一些“共同”理论家和实践者在知识共享、开源软件、城市花园和城市改造等领域工作的例子。我们的兴趣是理解和支持难民营作为“共同点”。该网络将探讨过渡设计如何带来急需的转变，使社区不仅与环境和谐相处，而且与其所有成员和谐相处，无论是在国内还是在国外。传统的设计方法以线性过程为特征，其目标是实现可预测和有利可图的解决方案，不仅有失败的历史，而且实际上加剧了系统性和邪恶的问题。向可持续的难民未来过渡需要以新的叙述和深刻的范式转变为基础的新的设计方式。