Event 4 How to turn refugee shelters into thriving environments by team IMBY

Talk & workshop: How to turn refugee shelters into thriving environments

French architecture collective Quatorze & Spanish architecture and engineer collective DAT Pangea in cooperation with innovation studio Open State from Berlin joined forces on August 20 at the Finnish pavilion. The organizations met exactly one year ago during POC21, a 5-week innovation camp with 300 creatives that developed 12 open-source products for a fossil-free, zero waste future.

The collectives now concentrate their work on the inclusion of refugees: DAT Pangea and Quatorze´s tiny home project IMBY ("In my backyard") resembles a mobile, hands-on solution to give shelter to migrants and let them inclusively live in European neighbourhoods. Open State presents "Refugee Open Cities", an inclusive innovation process to turn European emergency shelters into thriving, self-governed spaces.

During La Biennale, and actually all around the world, tons of grassroots organizations, social innovators, architects, designers and many more have developed pragmatic and powerful solutions to the "crisis" that now transforms into a lasting challenge for all of us. The event invited people to jam, connect and share best-practices!