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PAST/ PRESENT/<br />
FUTURE<br />
Statistically we have already shown<br />
that we are in one of the worst<br />
moments in human history with<br />
regards to a global humanitarian<br />
crisis. There are 60 million displaced<br />
people in the world, another stateless<br />
child is born every 10 minutes,<br />
and three million people have no<br />
access to water, food, housing,<br />
work, education, and are caught in<br />
legal limbo.<br />
...This is nothing new though...<br />
We have been here before. A spectacular<br />
global opera of deja vu has<br />
gripped up as all, yet as designers<br />
we are often some of the most guilty<br />
in failing to recognize this. Failing to<br />
learn from events of such magnitude<br />
from the past, has lead us to<br />
little more than beautifying on the<br />
surface what is a more fundamental<br />
problem. The rise of the “Designer<br />
Refugee Camp” is a superfluous<br />
gimmick providing ‘temporary shelter’<br />
to a problem that is far more<br />
permanent. Austerity runs rife, as<br />
governments push for barren, frugal<br />
attempts at refugee camps to deter<br />
future asylum seekers. This all goes<br />
on while global spending runs rampant<br />
on global positioning systems<br />
to monitor refugee movement or<br />
creating weapons to bomb the very<br />
countries afresh from where the<br />
refugees originate.<br />
37 STATISTICAL NIGHTMARE<br />
We have ultimately failed at papering<br />
over the cracks of this crisis, and<br />
looking at what the future holds, the<br />
walls are about to come tumbling<br />
down.
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