The unpredictable crisis can happen suddenly and rapidly. Millions of people are affected who forced to move out and who hosts the waves of displaced people. Refers to UNHCR, 65.3 million are affected, in a daily base 33.972 people obliged to escape their homes because of conflict or persecution and seek to resettle to have their basic needs such as food, house, and clothes. 21.3 million are registered as refugees, 16.1 million refugees under UNHCR Commission and UNRWA registered 5.2 million Palestinian refugees, over the half of them are under the age of 18.
The Jordanian social fabrics rapidly changed and still do due to the surrounding conflicts as a consequence, and it significantly reforms the cities and creates new genuine metropolitan. Jordan hosts 2 million Palestinians, 130,911 Iraqis and 1,265,000 Syrians census result in Nov 2015, 657,422 registered as refugees as well as other nationalities. The population of Jordan is 9.5 million, over 35% are non-Jordanian. Historically; waves of Circassian, Chechen, Turkmen and Armenian resettled in Jordan and became Jordanian minorities.
The diversity shapes the Jordanians’ social networks where it can be found Palestinian grandmother, having a substantial Iraqi`s friend, and teaching Syrian students. The research will aim to define a space of possibilities, a place of survival and hope which has intellectual power of forming refugees’ settlements and design applicable assumptions of how the host countries can respond to the rapid influx of refugees through resilient strategies, inclusive urban design and social changes management.
The study will be located in the hosted cities of Jordan where social changes are in the urban fabric. The Research formed as an investigation of what and how it was, the current and how it will go through on what will be designed and managed. In Jordan, there are cases of previous precedents of settlements which it will be the start of historical research, mapping, and photography beside some informal interviews the areas to find the potentials and the gaps and reorient the cities towards a vision of responses to the rapid changes within its context by the refugees.
Questions to ask:
Who is “Us” and who is “Other”?
What fixes boundaries of us and others? What constructs it?
Who has the power?
Who is the audience?
