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. According 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, housing, and clothing. 21.3 million are registered as refugees, 16.1 million refugees under UNHCR Commission and 5.2 million UNRWA registered Palestinian refugees. Over half of them are under the age of 18.
The Jordanian social fabric rapidly changed and still is due to the surrounding conflicts as a consequence. This 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.
Social diversity shapes the Jordanians’ social networks. One can find a person who has a Palestinian grandmother, having a substantial Iraqi`s friend, and teaching Syrian students. The location of the research offers to people of concerns 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 grow, and the waves are containing loads on the infrastructure, and the resources as consequences many cities` educations, healthcare, economies, transportation and built environment are in transitioned phases.
I will explore the layers of these multilayers conditions by generating several maps and analyzing photograph, statistics, interview and recorded videos. The settings that have been transformed due to the refugees will be analyzed at different scales. The mapping will set a timeline for its period and will investigate the resources that refugee’s need that is living in camp or settlement where the immediate support took place to serve the impacted members. The settings will be classified by the formal of the social aspect of refugees locations and the waves existence. This way of analysis will try to answer 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?.
A place of survival and hope which has the intelligently hidden 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 the management of social changes This study will try 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. By understanding the underlying of the cities practice. The analysis of the operational conditions to reach the intersection of the existence of resilient components and spaces of possibilities, the design also will be trying to reach how to obtain a general comprehensive architectural and urban strategies.
