Draft of the abstract
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 location of the research offers safe and secure settings by the conditions of the surroundings. The settings of the new existence for new social fabrics where the cities generate and uncertainty transformed due to these rapid changes. Within the current period, the challenges are unpredictable grown, and the waves are containing loads on the infrastructure and the resources as consequences many cities` disciplines are in its transitioned phases.
This method is exploring the multilayers of these condition by generating several maps and analyze photographic, statistics, interview and recorded videos for the settings in particular scales by analysis the disciplines that affected the transformation of the cities due to the refugee’s presents. The mapping will set a timeline for its period and will investigate the same sectors of refugee’s components of the needs of living in camp or settlement where the immediate support took a place to serve the impacted members. The settings will be classified refers to the social aspect of refugees locations and the formation of the waves existence. 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. This study will 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.
The study will understand the underlying of the cities practice by analysis these conditions of operations and reach the intersection of these hidden resilient components and spaces of possibilities and how to obtain a general comprehensive design plan as well as architectural and urban strategies.
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?
