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框架，提出以协作设计为主导的实践作为工具，以创建解决复杂（棘手）问题和向更可持续的未来过渡所需的新叙述和方法。它是与土著和当地社区发现的传统生态知识系统（TEK）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者。我们的兴趣是探索如何利用这个框架来创造关于城市难民管理的新的、急需的叙述，以改变同化的叙述；从关注“难民缺少什么”转向“难民带来什么”。战争、政治经济冲突和环境灾难正在给当前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、被迫移民和无国籍人口是外交政策的主体，被视为外部冲突的受害者、脆弱的、被动的行动者，而相反，这些人口在东道国的斗争中却变得如鱼得水。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，从而帮助制定本地和全球解决方案，应对社会和环境问题。边界的概念在这里变得关键，不仅作为一个地理事实，而且作为社会产生和政治生产力；不仅标记领土，还标记想象、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。由此可见，难民危机不仅是指背井离乡的生命悲剧，也是东道国自我意识的不稳定。将领土不仅理解为财产、国家或资源，而且将其理解为情感自然社会相遇的场所，将“公共空间”定义为重新审视自我和他人的主观关系和想象的空间。 “共同”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（Donna Haraway）所说的“响应能力”——以道德方式回应与我们共享世界的其他人的要求的能力——提供了土壤。我们找到了在知识共享、开源软件、城市花园和城市改造等领域工作的“普通”理论家和实践者的例子。我们的兴趣是理解并支持将难民营视为“公地”。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，而且与境内外的所有成员和谐相处。传统的设计方法以线性流程为特征，其目标是实现可预测且有利可图的解决方案，但它们不仅有失败的历史，而且实际上加剧了系统性和棘手的问题。向可持续难民未来的过渡需要基于新叙事和深刻范式转变的新设计方式。