{"product_id":"design-to-live-azra-aksamija-9780262542876","title":"Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. \u003ci\u003eDesign to Live\u003c\/i\u003e documents designs, inventions, and artworks created by Syrian refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative innovations--including the vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting in the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing made from recycled desks; and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material scarcity, unforgiving desert climate, and cultural isolation of the camp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in close collaboration with the residents of the camp, with text in both English and Arabic, Design to Live, reflects two perspectives on the camp: people living and working in Azraq and designers reflecting on humanitarian architecture within the broader field of socially engaged art and design. Architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, narratives, and stories offer vivid testimony to the imaginative and artful ways that residents alter and reconstruct the standardized humanitarian design of the camp--and provide models that can be replicated elsewhere. The book is the product of a three-year project undertaken by MIT Future Heritage Lab, researchers and students with Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, CARE, Jordan, and the German-Jordanian University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopublication with Future Heritage Lab, MIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Azra Aksamija\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262542870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262542876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.61w x 1.02d","brand":"Azra Aksamija","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051395313919,"sku":"9780262542876","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a464d123-c12e-466e-85c7-30cc5b50d84c.jpg?v=1685012841","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/design-to-live-azra-aksamija-9780262542876","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}