Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement Seminar: 'Healthy housing for the displaced'

‘Healthy housing for the displaced’ is a project that aims to develop a new science of shelter design based on multi-criteria optimisation that puts the social well being, health and thermal comfort of the shelter occupants at the center of the design process and allows an agile response. It uses the current shelter occupants as part of the research team, rather than just a cohort to study.

After a pilot study in Azraq camp, Jordan, where internal shelter temperatures of 48ºC were recorded, we were funded by GCRF to examine how shelter might be better designed. Working with field based measurements (largely from Jordan) of thermal and social data, we are modelling, building, and testing new ideas for shelter. This presentation will summarise our work and findings to date, and outline how we are bringing together social, thermal, construction, and material data to develop a science for shelter design.

Refreshments provided.

For more information see the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement website.