City as commons and transition to sustainable refugee futures
Transition Design as an emerging framework 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 transition design can inform the creation of new, much needed, narratives about urban refugee management, that would support a shift from the focus of "what refugees lack" towards "what refugees bring".
The project aims to build an international network of stakeholders and researchers, to explore the use of Transition Design and the idea of the city as commons, as a future methodology to inform urban refugee management.
5 July 2023 - 5 July 2024
Refugee Transition Network is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The round table was centered around the intersections between Transition Design, City as Commons and Urban Refugee Management.
RTN is creating a good practice cases compilation, bilingual (English and Bahasa) methodological resource directed at students.
The workshops brought together refugees and practitioners in a co-design process that will shape our future methodology.
A collaborative challenge that partners students across different institutions to explore transition design and co-develop Transition Living Lab.
'Envision the Transition: Nurturing our inner work as changemaker' is a workshop taking place as part of the Participatory Design Conference in Sibu in August, 2024.