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

过渡设计是一个新兴的框架，它提出以合作设计为主导的做法，作为一种工具，以创造解决复杂(邪恶)问题和过渡到更可持续的未来所需的新叙事和方法。它与土著和当地社区的传统生态知识系统(TEK)一起开发和使用，以重新设计其自身发展和系统变化的愿景。几乎没有证据表明它适用于流离失所人口的情况。我们的兴趣是探索如何利用这一框架来创造关于城市难民管理的新的、迫切需要的叙事，改变关于同化的叙事；从关注难民缺乏什么转向关注难民带来什么。战争、政治经济冲突和环境灾难正在给现在和不久的未来带来前所未有的、被迫的、流离失所的人口危机。难民、寻求庇护者、被迫移民和无国籍人口是外交政策的对象，他们被视为外部冲突的受害者、脆弱和被动的代理人，而相反，这些人口在东道国的斗争中变得自在。他们的知识、情感、政治机构和自给自足的活动具有巨大的潜力，可以为系统层面的变革提供信息，有助于地方和全球解决方案，对社会和环境问题作出反应。在这里，边界的概念变得关键，不仅是作为一个地理事实，而且是作为社会生产和政治生产；不仅是标记领土，也是想象、情感和身份。边界保持着一种我们和他们、我们的世界和他们的世界的感觉。因此，难民危机不仅是指背井离乡的人的悲剧，也是指东道国自我意识的破坏。将领地不仅理解为一种财产、国家或资源，而且理解为情感自然-社会相遇的场所，定义了“公地”，即重新想象自我和他人的主观关系和想象的空间。“公共性”延伸了位置创造，关注人类和非人类之间的情感接触，培育了培养唐娜·哈拉韦所说的“反应能力”的基础--对与我们共享世界的其他人的需求做出合乎道德的反应的能力。我们发现了在知识共享、开源软件、城市花园和城市改造等领域工作的“共同”理论家和实践者的例子。我们的兴趣是理解和支持难民收容所，将其视为“公地”。该网络将探索过渡设计如何带来亟需的转变，在这种转变中，社区不仅与环境和谐，而且与其所有成员和谐相处，无论是在国界内还是在国界之外。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，它们不仅有失败的历史，而且实际上加剧了系统性和邪恶的问题。向可持续难民未来的过渡要求以新的叙述和深刻的范式转变为基础的新的设计方法。

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.