The PhD project explores the co-design of shelters in humanitarian programmes responding to internally displaced people in rural settings.
Within this context, the study addresses shortfalls in mechanisms that measure the impacts of leveraging local building cultures in temporary and transitional shelter typologies.
To do so, a narrative-based investigation will be conducted within a real-life shelter intervention, with the purpose of analysing the exchanges of local materials, construction techniques and housing designs.
The intended output of the study is to create an action framework that assists in measuring impact. Such a tool is predicted to better the cultural adequacy of programming alongside facilitating holistic practices that centralise local knowledge.
