2018 → 2027
From convening to continuity.
The Journal carries forward a multi-year IIHA and Fordham initiative that has used events, publications and collaborative projects to ask how design can make humanitarian action more dignified, inclusive and sustainable.
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22 June 2018 · New York
First Design for Humanity Summit
IIHA and IOM brought together more than 350 participants and 40 innovators across humanitarian, design, academic and private-sector practice. The proposition was direct: people affected by crisis deserve more than minimum standards—they deserve dignity, inclusion and durable solutions.
Provoke changeFoster dignityPromote inclusionCurate memory
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21 June 2019 · New York
Design in the Time of Displacement
The second Summit moved the conversation through two linked lenses. “From Camps to Communities” considered movement, transition, refuge and permanence. “From Data to Stories” asked how technology and visualisation could document rights, provoke empathy and amplify voices without reducing people to data points.
From data to stories
2020–present · Migration routes in the Americas
Casa Azul
Casa Azul is an architectural and research initiative developed by IIHA, IOM and TAMassociati. Its flexible modules adapt existing structures or new spaces into hubs for information, services, culture, learning, rest and exchange with host communities.
It treats beauty and cultural identity as part of an ethical humanitarian response—not as optional decoration. The project was featured in Cooper Hewitt's Designing Peace exhibition.
01Plaza
02Welcome
03Information
04Culture
05Library
06Comfort
07Food
08Garden
Read the project as a system
Not one building. A kit of actions.
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The next chapter
The Journal is not a record of the initiative. It is its working continuation.
Convene→Test→Document→Question→Share