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What can refugee camps teach us about urban form?

Campus in Camps is an educational program based in Dheisheh Refugee camp in Bethlehem Palestine that engages young participants from refugee camps into a two-year program over the question of visual and cultural representation and narration of camps and refugees after more than 60 years of displacement. This project aims to provide young Palestinians with the theoretical knowledge, intellectual capacities and practical skills to facilitate these debates and translate them into practical, community-based interventions that embodies new representational practices and make them visible in the camps. www.campusincamps.ps

About the Case Author
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti are both architects and researchers in urbanism, members of DAAR, an architectural office and an artistic residency program that combines conceptual speculations and architectural interventions. (www.decolonizing.ps). Alongside research and practice, Hilal and Petti are engaged in critical pedagogy, they are founding members of Campus in Camps an experimental educational program by Al Quds University hosted by the Phoenix Center in Dheisheh refugee camp Bethlehem (www.campusincamps.ps).