Conference, May 9, DAZ
9.30 – 10.00
Arrival and Registration
10:00 – 10:10
Welcome Statement
Matthias Böttger
Artistic Director of the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ
10.10 – 10.25
Opening Statement
Uta Böllhoff, Head of Department “Europe, Middle East and Asia; multilateral development policy”, BMZ
10.25-10.35
Introduction to Conference and Keynote Speaker
Philipp Misselwitz, University of Stuttgart (Curator)
10.35-11.15
Keynote Lecture
A Global Scape of Camps. New Forms of Heterotopias
Michel Agier, Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and member of the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
11.15-11.30
Closing Remarks
Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General UNRWA
11.45-13.00
Planning with Uncertainty
Thematic Session 1
Camp urbanization is a reality in many refugee camps across the world: Tent cities have evolved into dense, often congested urban settings. How can architects, planners and development experts positively engage? How can we reconcile the seeming contradiction between temporariness and permanence?
15 min presentations + discussion
Moderator: Matthias Böttger, DAZ
The Case of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Muna Budeiri, Department of Infrastructure and Camp Improvement, UNRWA
UNHCR and Refugees, with Focus on Protracted Refugees
Manoucher Lolachi, Senior Physical Planner at Operational Solutions and Transition Section (UNHCR)
Informal Settlements & marginalized communities/ Urban Refugees in the context of Informal Urbanisation
Patrick Coulombel, Emergency Architects, Paris
Prefiguring the State - Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara
Manuel Herz, ETH Studio Basel
14.00 – 15.15
The Agency of Camp Dwellers/ Marginalised Communities
Thematic Session 2
Camp dwellers are experts in surviving on minimal means, improvising, making do with what can be found and almost immediately transforming the physical, spatial, social and economic constitution of their initial emergency setting. What can we learn from the resilience and agency of camp dwellers? How can host governments, donor organisations and development experts become effective partners?
15 min presentations + discussion
Moderator: Yasar Adanalı, University of Stuttgart
Community Driven Upgrading: Building Grassroots Movement of Slum Dwellers
Aditya Kumar, Slum Dwellers International, Cape Town
Identity and Belonging
Ismael Sheikh Hassan, University of Leuven/ Beirut
Human Rights and UNRWA’s Contemporary Approach to Camp Improvement
Michael Schoiswohl, UNRWA
The Public and the Camp
Sandi Hilal, UNRWA
15.30 – 17.00
New Frameworks for Participatory Planning
Thematic Session 3
Community driven planning pilots in Palestine refugee camps have introduced a new culture of “planning with refugees”. What conclusions can be drawn? How does planning with refugee communities differ from participatory planning processes in deprived, informally developed neighbourhoods?
15 min presentations + discussion
Moderator: Günter Meinert, GIZ
Institutionalizing Community Driven Urban Planning
Alexandra Linden, GIZ
Testing Camp Improvement
Fatima el-Nammari, Amman/ Toronto
Addressing Urban Growth Challenges of Palestinian Refugee Camps:
A Proposal for an Integrated and Inclusive Approach
Dania Rifai, UN-HABITAT, Beirut
Cooperating in Design
Jörg Stollmann, TU Berlin/ Rainer Hehl, ETH Zürich
17.00-18.00
Closing Panel
Moderated by Gudrun Kramer, GIZ