Professor rethinks living spaces for refugee camps

New technologies have made the world smaller. Rana Abudayyeh, a professor of interior architecture, asks how architects respond to shifting perspectives of space for displaced people. ‘A Syrian refugee living in a Jordanian camp, or an immigrant to the US, will have multiple associations with place,’ said Abudayyeh. ‘They carry archival images of their home with them on smart devices, and that will influence the way they interact with their physical space.’
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org