Infrastructures of Care: Spaces of Refuge and Displacement
A symposium and exhibition at The Bartlett School of Architecture

Please note: Eventbrite is a third-party service that is not owned or managed by The Bartlett. You should also review Eventbrite’s terms and conditions and privacy policy as we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies.
About
This event brings together academics, activists, NGOs and spatial practitioners to discuss questions of infrastructures of care relating to forced migration. The aim is to explore the various spatial, material, human, and humanitarian entanglements of provision created for and by displaced people.
Schedule
IAS Common Ground, UCL
Murray Fraser, Vice-Dean Research, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL
IAS Common Ground, UCL
Revisiting the Camp: On the Impossibility of Political Resolution
Samar Maqusi, RELIEF, UCL
Refuge in the City of Austerity
Deena Dajani, London School of Economics
The Politics of Pain: Prescribing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Conflict
Ayesha Ahmad, St George’s University of London and UCL
Navigating the Politics of Care: Experiences of Unaccompanied Young People in the UK and Italy
Elaine Chase, Institute of Education, UCL
IAS Common Ground, UCL
The Case for an Ethics of Care in Humanitarianisms Inbetween Spaces
Cathrine Brun, Oxford Brookes
Infrastructures of Care and Repression in Contemporary Britain
Aidan Mosselson, University of Sheffield
Infrastructures of Reception
Gala Nettelbladt, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
Refugees Hosting Refugees – Endurance and Maintenance of Care
Howayda Al-Harithy, Camillo Boano, Batoul Yassine, American University of Beirut and UCL
Room 6.02, 22 Gordon Street, UCL
Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor in Migration & Refugee Studies, and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, UCL
Room 6.02, 22 Gordon Street, UCL
Bordered Worlds, Bordered Forms
Dom Davies, City, University of London
Participatory Spatial Research as Collective Care & Care for the Collective in the Beqaa Valley
Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj, Riccardo Luca Conti, and Andrea Rigon, UCL and CatalyicAction
Ethics of Care in a London Drop-in Centre for Refugees and Migrants
Leyla Williams, The West London Welcome Centre for Refugees and Migrants
Contested Welcoming
Caroline Cottet, Refugee Women’s Centre in Grande Synthe, Dunkirk and Calais
Exhibition
Room 1.01, 22 Gordon Street
01 – 08 February 2019.
The Madafah: Who is hosting whom?
Aya Musmar, University of Sheffield
Walking with Purpose
Bence Komlosi, Mary Rojas and Architecture for Refugees Schweiz
Informal Tented Settlements
Diala Makki, Mona Harb, and Mona Fawaz, American University of Beirut
Passage Variations (Greece/UK 2019, 18min)
Ektoras Arkomanis, London Metropolitan University
Integrating the Walls, Transcending our Tiredness
Ged Ribas Goody, UCL
Infrastructures of Control
Giovanna Astolfo, UCL
Collective Care and Care for the Collective
Hanna Baumann and Andrea Rigon, UCL, Joana Dabaj and Riccardo Luca Conti, CatalyticAction
Black Markets: Cape Town and Minneapolis
Huda Tayob, UCL and LSE
En Route Camps in Northern France
Irit Katz, LSE, University of Cambridge and University of Sheffield
Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship
Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez, UCL
Afro-Christian Churches as Care-Takers in/of the City
Luce Beeckmans, Ghent University
“Welcome to the Green Hotel”
Maria Hagan, University of Cambridge
Architectures of Displacement
Mark E Breeze, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge
Material and Immaterial ‘Infrastructures of Care’ in Jordan
Melissa Gatter, University of Cambridge
The Spatial Aesthetics of a Refugee-guided Tour
Michal Huss, University of Cambridge
Design Methodologies, Al Azraq Refugee Camp
Melina Phillippou, Azra Aksamija, and Zeid Madi Future Heritage Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Strange Village: The Squatted Plaza Hotel in Athens
Nikolaos Kanavaris, Symeon Makaronas, and Stellatou Dimitra NTUA and UCL
Objects Removed for Study
Rafael Guendelman Hales, UCL
BlackSites
Tom Morgan and Darren Dharmadasa, Monash University
Tempohomes in Berlin
Viktoria Pues, UN Habitat
Further information
Please note that this event will be held across two locations.
This event is generously supported by The Bartlett Synergy Grant and the Institute for Advanced Studies and Refuge in a Moving World Research group.
Organised by Dr Huda Tayob, Dr Irit Katz and Dr Giovanna Astolfo.
Access
If you have any access requirements please let us know, send an email or call 020 3108 7337
Image: Yangon, Myanmar, 2018.
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes