Journal article
‘Places for people’: Architecture, building and humanitarian innovation
- Abstract:
- Humanitarian innovation has come under considerable fire in recent years for its uncritical technophilia, its links with the private sector, and its tendency to fetishize objects rather than focusing on politics and process. There are many examples of these issues in the shelter sector, yet this article argues that a clear distinction should be made between innovation and architecture. By comparing the Ikea-funded ‘Better Shelter’ with series of architectural interventions in Vienna, collectively known as ‘Places for People’, this paper argues that architecture can productively engage with humanitarianism by not constructing shelters, but designing at a smaller scale in a way that does not involve any building at all.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.7227/JHA.021
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- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Humanitarian Affairs More from this journal
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 14-22
- Publication date:
- 2020-02-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-10-17
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2515-6411
- Language:
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English
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pubs:1063496
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pubs:1063496
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1063496
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2019-10-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Tom Scott-Smith
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2020. This is an Open Access article published under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.
- Notes:
- This is an author version of the article. The final version is available online from the publisher's website
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