Settlement Communities: Projecting Affordable Housing for Refugees in Footscray, Melbourne

Design as a tool of political advocacy has historically been one of the strongest techniques used by architects and urban planners in addressing issues of affordable housing. With role models such as Jane Jacobs and Ada Huxtable, social advocates for affordable housing now stretch across the globe including Australia. In a contemporary age where asylum seekers and refugees traverse territorial borders in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, architects, geographers, and urban planners must begin to frame how design may intervene in the ongoing global refugee crisis. This critical call to arms is not only evident in the work of current design practitioners such as Ronaldo Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Teddy Cruz, and Eyal Weizman, but also in the realm of architectural history/theory scholarship which has explored how the narratives of affordable housing and refugees should be acknowledged.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.59

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9