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, with the overall aim of
co-designing a follow-up research and development project.
Transition Design is an emerging framework that 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 this framework can be used to create new, much needed, narratives about urban refugee management, to transform the narratives of assimilation; a shift from
the focus of "what refugees lack" and towards "what refugees bring".
