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Research Themes
Young Children Environments
We are passionate about exploring how young children and their caregivers use and transform their built environments to enhance their wellbeing. Our research uses participatory research strategies that prioritize inclusion, social justice, and equality.
Forced displacement and urbanization
Our work focuses on the overlaps between conflict-induced displacement and urbanization, including newly-built and long-term camps, borders, routes, resettlement strategies, and welcoming policies.
Sustainable design practice
Incorporating holistic sustainability into the built environment, architecture, and urban projects through the integration of social, economic, environmental, and technological aspects is a fundamental element of our research and practice, driving us to create a better tomorrow.
Research Projects
Research Design, Implementation and Dissemination phases
This research project mapped and analysed the spatial characteristics and evolution of seven long-term refugee camps located in the East African Ridge
Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya – 2015/2018
Findings dissemination and impact phases
This research-based publishing interest design studio focused on improving the physical spaces used for home-based early childhood development initiatives in the Kigeme refugee camp
Rwanda – 2017
Research Design and Implementation phases
The research project examined the impact of formal, non-formal, and informal learning environments on young children living in seven long-term East African camps
Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya – 2015/2018
Research Design phase
This project investigates the reasons behind, and potential solutions to, the widespread destruction of public primary educational facilities in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city
Uganda – 2019
Methodologies, Findings dissemination and impact phases
We continuously design, test, and implement design-based tools for data collection and dissemination. Our focus is on developing methods that include young children, illiterate persons, and people with diverse languages and abilities into knowledge creation and feedback loops.
Findings dissemination and impact phases
This research-by-design employed a traditional Rwandan mural-making technique to investigate the effects of beautification on spatial child-friendliness and safety in two selected areas of the Kiziba refugee camp
Rwanda – 2017
Findings dissemination and impact phases
This research-by-design entailed the Implementation of locally developed earth floors to explore potential improvements in young children’s development by creating a healthier indoor home environment in a set of selected households
Mugombwa refugee camp, Rwanda – 2020
Research Design and Implementation phases.
This research project studies the refugees’ role in constructing the long-term camps they inhabit, using seven East African long-term camps as case studies.
Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya – 2015/2018
Research and exhibition with Hunguta Collective
The project focuses on degrowth practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, which were transformed into an atlas exhibited at the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale
Oslo – 2019
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