Translation from German
http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/daniel-kerber-was-brauchen-fluechtlinge-ausser-einem-dach.970.de.html?dram:article_id=305938
Can an artist do for refugees? This
question has to Daniel
Kerber. He has
founded a design and architecture
that deals with humanitarian
projects.
He has visited dwellings all over the world, that people have built in distress, in slums, under highway bridges, on roofs - from materials such as cardboard, plastic or wood. In that the artist Daniel Kerber has found a lot of "highly civilized" architecture. His travels brought him also to refugee camps . Kerber has returned from Jordan - from Saatari, where more than 80,000 Syrians seek protection from the war in their country.
A society in which responsibility is taken over.
It is always impressive to see how people despite trauma tried in such a situation, to live a life of dignity and put up with being stranded somewhere in the desert, Kerber said. In Saatari they opened shops, as well as private schools and kindergartens - "that a society has been created there which also assumed responsibility". For the refugees knew they would have stayed there long.
Many people have permanently left their home.
The situation in refugee camps had "changed dramatically," said the artist. They no longer existed for only a short time, but for ran average of 20 years: "We just have to consider that conflicts tend to last longer, but that they also have to leave permanently their homes because of climate change."
With its design and architecture studio "More Than Shelter" Kerber helps in humanitarian projects such as in Saatari. They main thing is to make this complex ecosystem - "but always with the focus that man is the expert here, and we are working with him."
He has visited dwellings all over the world, that people have built in distress, in slums, under highway bridges, on roofs - from materials such as cardboard, plastic or wood. In that the artist Daniel Kerber has found a lot of "highly civilized" architecture. His travels brought him also to refugee camps . Kerber has returned from Jordan - from Saatari, where more than 80,000 Syrians seek protection from the war in their country.
A society in which responsibility is taken over.
It is always impressive to see how people despite trauma tried in such a situation, to live a life of dignity and put up with being stranded somewhere in the desert, Kerber said. In Saatari they opened shops, as well as private schools and kindergartens - "that a society has been created there which also assumed responsibility". For the refugees knew they would have stayed there long.
Many people have permanently left their home.
The situation in refugee camps had "changed dramatically," said the artist. They no longer existed for only a short time, but for ran average of 20 years: "We just have to consider that conflicts tend to last longer, but that they also have to leave permanently their homes because of climate change."
With its design and architecture studio "More Than Shelter" Kerber helps in humanitarian projects such as in Saatari. They main thing is to make this complex ecosystem - "but always with the focus that man is the expert here, and we are working with him."
Here
is the website of the organization founded by Daniel Kerber http://www.morethanshelters.org/
