Opening Night of Creative Recovery Exhibition of work titled: Refugees Mapping Memories on the 20th of June 2019 at 5pm (till 8pm). The event is part of the national Refugee Week events. The exhibition will showcase the work of 12 wonderful people from the Refugee and Asylum Seeker communities in Plymouth who have been working…
Re-thinking Post Recovery Space: Strategies around Post-conflict Space and Displacement
As part of the Displacement Studies Research Network, I’m organising this event where I will be talking about the findings from Creative Recovery project. Oscillating between trauma, memory and healing, this event presents alternative and participatory practices to construct new forms for a Post Recovery Space. We aim for new paradigms by linking research in practice…
Rudimentary design, architecture, and urban integration: Getting out of context and moving from ‘for’ to ‘with’ the displaced – Human and Urban Displacement: From Crises to Creativity Symposium 2018
Like all other fields of study, architecture has had its fair share of suggesting, debating and designing for the millions of displaced people around the world. Camp sites and shelters seem to be topping the design and architecture agendas across the Western world. In this paper, I highlighted an issue of context – in practice…
Contingent creativity of the displaced between urban and epigenetic plasticity – Off The Lip Conference 2017
In a paper presented for Off The Lip 2017 Conference, I discussed how the challenges faced by the displaced through protracted drifting and the spatial disruption to their daily lives can stimulate the emergence of new patterns of creative thinking that are specific to spatial problem-solving. I brought evidence from psychological experiments to support this…
Displacement Studies Research Network
I founded the Displacement Studies Research Network earlier in 2017 to provide a voice for the displaced and facilitate a platform for inter/trans/cross-disciplinary research projects with our global partners.
The Right to a Parking Space: The Spatial State of Marginality
Have you ever felt that your right to a parking space has been violated when another driver decides to drive the wrong way down a one-way lane and occupies it before you can get there yourself? If yes, then read on.
Sana Murrani 