
Concrete in Urban Warfare & Peacebuilding
After reading a fascinating paper titled, Concretising conflict by Deen Sharp I have been reflecting on my work in Iraq and other...


Displaced People Reusing Buildings
Erbil Urban Site During the last 10 years, there has been an increased interest in testing, shaping and re-shaping the built environment...


People in Places Between Humanity, State, Law & Politics
Image by Frazer Macdonald Hay It is hard to appreciate the scale and realities of the global refugee situation, most are unaware of the...


An Uncomfortable Framing of The Most Heinous
Image Society has to wrestle back the meaning of genocide, restore its status and rescue it from triviality and commodification in the...


Befriending our Existing Concrete
Shall we not squander the embodied energy*, social meaning and memories of concrete or post-industrial buildings through aesthetic biases...

An Introduction to ReStart Ukraine
Allow me to introduce you to ReStart Ukraine - A immerging collective of 9 clusters (Ref Image above) that propose that the , "New...


"I wore my anti-sniper shoes every time I was in Sarajevo"
Surely violence would inhibit creativity - Being creative is the last thing one might think about in an environment where conflict,...


The Everyday Benefit of Reflexivity
Reflexivity is the process of becoming self-aware. Humanitarian actors and those they seek to support are often encouraged to make...


Hope & The Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel
It is not often WWII prisoner of war camp buildings find new value in society. The horrific events in Ukraine have offered an unexpected...


Prepare for Peacebuilding During the Conflict in Ukraine
For many, this will be a strange article to post at this stage of a conflict that has horrifically developed only recently. However,...