CASA AZUL
Designers: United Nations Special Envoy for the Venezuelan Situation, International Organization for Migration–Panama; Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University (United States); with TAMassociati (Italy); Locations: Venezuelan migration routes in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean; Years: 2020–present
Casa Azul, Spanish for “Blue House,” is an architectural and research initiative that explores how design can improve the delivery of humanitarian aid to vulnerable migrants. The project focused on much-traveled paths from Venezuela along South and Central American and Caribbean migration routes. Casa Azul is grounded in a flexible space concept, which allows for the adaptation of existing structures or new buildings that can quickly and easily transform into the distinctive, bright blue casas. These hubs offer not only necessities but also space for embracing a shared humanity though opportunities for social, economic, and cultural interactions with local communities.
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Image: Before and after retrofitting example, 2020; Drawing by TAMassociati; Credit: TAMassociati
Designing Peace
What would be possible if we were to design for peace?
Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace and creating a more equitable world. The exhibition features design projects from around the globe that look at ways to create and sustain more durable peaceful interactions—from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation.
Visitors will encounter a wide range of design responses to the underlying reasons for conflict and division and will be encouraged to consider their own agency in designing peace.
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Defining Peace
Designing the Future Now
How Can Design Address the Root Causes of Conflict?
How Can Design Embrace Truth and Dignity in a Search for Peace and Justice?
How Can Design Engage Creative Confrontation?
How Can Design Facilitate the Transition from Instability to Peace?
How Can Design Support Humane Forms of Peace and Security?
Imagining the Future Now
Securing Our Collective Future
Papers, Please
Papers, Please
The Adventures of Daly Graphic Novels
An Architecture of Peace
Body Mapping
Body Mapping
Christmas Operations
How Can Design Support Humane Forms of Peace and Security?
In Transit Studio
Island Tracker
Island Tracker
Social Emergency Response Centers
Startblok Elzenhagen
Teeter-Totter Wall
Teeter-Totter Wall
The Business of Peace
Astropolitics: Depletion of Terrestrial Resources and the Cosmic Future of Capitalism
CONIFA
Hate Speech Lexicons
How Can Design Address the Root Causes of Conflict?
New World Summit – Rojava
New World Summit – Rojava
New World Summits
Peace Pavilion
Positive Peace Index
Rare Earthenware
Regreening Africa
Regreening Africa
Stalled!
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Posters
Art the Arms Fair
Beautiful Trouble Toolbox
Black Lives Matter Harlem Street Mural
Black Lives Matter Street Mural Census
Black Lives Matter Street Mural Visualization
Extinction Symbol
How Can Design Engage Creative Confrontation?
Maps (Bullet Rug Series)
Objects, People, and Peace
Universality through Visual Symbols
World Peace Symbol
The Chronic
“To Whom Does the Earth Belong?”
Citizen-State, a Bottom-Up Reparation Model
Conflict Kitchen
Conflict Kitchen
Designing the Kitchen
How Can Design Embrace Truth and Dignity in a Search for Peace and Justice?
My Ancestors’ Garden
Paper Monuments
The Murder of Halit Yozgat
Women, War, and Peace
BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peace Missions
Casa Azul
Designing for Dignity
Designing for Urban Inclusivity
HarassMap
HarassMap
How Can Design Facilitate the Transition from Instability to Peace?
Ideas Box
Ideas Box
Ideas Box
Jordan River Peace Park
Korea Remade
Musings on Peace
Recoding Post-War Syria
RefAid
RefAid App
Safe Passage Bags Workshop
Stone Garden