Norman Foster and Shigeru Ban: Challenges and solutions to provide shelter to vulnerable communities

Eighty million people were displaced in 2021 due to conflict and natural disasters and, in just over two months, the current crisis has forced another 12.5 million people to flee within the country or to neighbouring ones. The average duration of displacement is twenty-six years, so, while we tend to think of displacement as something temporary, most often, it is not.
The first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation’s Public Debates on Shelters took place on Wednesday 8 June 2022 with the support of Holcim, and tackled the challenges and potential solutions to provide shelter to these vulnerable communities.
With a five-minute keynote and debate between the following experts:
- Johan Karlsson, Managing Director, Better Shelter, Stockholm, Sweden
- Elena Giral, Project Manager, European Emergency Shelter and Emergency Transport and Logistics, European Commission (EC)-Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, Brussels, Belgium
And with a never-seen-before conversation between the two Pritzker-recipients:
- Norman Foster, President, Norman Foster Foundation
- Shigeru Ban, Founder and Principal Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan

[@momemass9163]

Very inspiring!! It just made me think that how as an architect i can do something to actually help others who are in need for a basic thing such as shelter!! I am trying to see if there is any humanitary volunteers near me so that I can do that!! Really hope each one of us can provide some help to the people in need!!

[@jorgemartinez-qy8bq]

Que buena esta Elena Giral

[@johnferraz6417]

A little more than eighteen years ago, a prototype of L'unit was designed, tested and duplicated 120 times. It provided to the public, a view of what an emergency shelter could look like (Temporal...yet stable). This prefab 'village' quiet sits every year on the QPS Trinidad, with slight improvements every single carnival season(three months). lt is built with local labour and materials. lt's 'modular systems approach' can be easily adapted to address our housing challenge for refugees...or any other emergency events, like the hurricanes we have here. Peace.

[@chriskundi5512]

Post war architecture wasn't architecture it was shelter to house Jewish people from the Nazi's and also for the people who help save the Nazi's. Who were also descendants of Jews, so this migrant situation started from the Jews, who were the first migrants to enter Europe.