Events

As part of the AttiMa Summer School "Caring communities & community building - envisioning a different future" a panel discussion about "From refugee camps to ecological, sustainable cities for the future" took place in a hybrid event on 16.06.2022, 4:00-7:00 pm CET.

The following experts presented their work and experiences and discuss the challenges and opportunities of transforming refugee camps into ecological, sustainable cities:

4:00-4:35pm CET: Anicet Adjahossou is a Senior Cluster Coordination Officer and Sustainable Settlement Planner with over fifteen years of professional experience with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) working to shape the vital intersection between refugee settlement planning and sustainability. Having served as a senior specialist in the planning and sustainable development of refugee settlements in many countries around the world, he is deeply invested in current global trends in the emerging field of climate change and migration, and the need to rethink refugee settlements for more sustainable, resilient, and integrated solutions for the future as a means to build viable relationships with host cities. Anicet was instrumental in the planning and development of an integrated refugee settlement in Kenya’s Turkana County that aimed to address the social, economic, and environmental dynamics of the region, in addition to balancing humanitarian and development nexus demands. 

4:35-5:10pm CET: Antonio Scotti is a permaculture designer, consultant, educator and author since 2001. He obtained his Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design in 2012, by the Accademia Italiana di Permacultura. Throughout this time he has trained in various aspects of permaculture design such as bio-construction, domestic wastewater purification, keyline design, non-violent communication, tree crops, synergistic agriculture, holistic management, transitional cities. In 2016 co-founded the international collective Permaculture for Refugees collective and co-taught the Permaculture Design Certificate course in the Lavrios refugee camp, near Athens (Greece) in 2019. Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) is an international collective of experienced permaculture consultants and teachers with experience working with refugees, camp managers and people displaced by natural and human disasters in widely diverse physical, climatic and cultural situations. The main approach is based on training refugees in camps and communities as permaculture designers, so that they can be capable of changing their own life situation and transfer this skill to others fellow refugees.

5:10-5:45pm CET: Jorge Lobos is Associate Professor at the UNISS Department of Architecture Alghero (Italy) and founder of Architecture & Human Rights Denmark and Italy (ARCH+H.R.) and Chile (AEiDH). He is also the director of the postgraduate master "Resilient Spaces" at IUAV Venice, Italy, and a visiting teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen, KADK Denmark and UPM-ETSAM Madrid, Spain. He received several awards for his work, amongst other, he won the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in Paris, France, in 2019. 

6:00-7:00pm CET: Panel discussion "From refugee camps to ecological, sustainable cities for the future: challenges and opportunities"

AttiMa cooperation partners from Lebanon and Jordan participated in the International Teaching Week, which took place from May 16-19, 2022 at FHWS in Würzburg.