Displaceus A global intervention for the climate refugee problem
Daniel Park, Norah Murphy, Kristin Rivas, Maria Pelissier
Parsons School of Design Fall 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION - 4
FIRM - 16
PROJECT - 34
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DISCOVER - 37
IDEATION - 70
CRAF T - 78
EVALUATE - 93
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Introduction A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of 2015 there were 65.3 million people worldwide who were forcibly displaced. This number has since then increased within the past year due to rising issues of war, violence and persecution which are the most common causes of refugees. However, there is an emerging cause that is rapidly growing and become a catalyst for displacing millions of people. This catalyst is climate change. According to NASA, 7,000 years ago marked the beginning of our current climate era. In the past one hundred years alone, the Earth has undergone extreme environmental and climate related changes that have been detrimental to the planet and its inhabitants. To date, 97% of climate scientists agree that global warming, which exists under the broad umbrella of climate change, is much likely the blame of human activities such as the greenhouse effect. NASA describes the greenhouse effect as “a blanket around the Earth,” and further explains that: “Life on Earth depends on energy coming from the sun. About half the light reaching Earth’s atmosphere passes through the air and clouds to the surface, where it is absorbed and then radiated upward in the form of infrared heat. About 90 percent of this heat is then absorbed by the greenhouse gases and radiated back toward the surface, which is warmed to a life-supporting average of 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius).” This man-made issue currently acts as the prime cause of the Earth’s rising temperatures, melting glaciers and rising sea levels. It is not the only cause of climate change, but is a large contributor.
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The effects of climate change are vast and vary upon region, but a commonality is that it affects the occupants of those regions. These occupants have received many titles, but we will refer to them as climate refugees, and they are environmental migrants who are forced to move due to sudden or gradual changes in their natural environment. Often they are displaced either within their own country, which categorizes them as internally displaced people (IDP), or forces them to seek refuge outside of their borders. Because the cause of their displacement is not due to war, race, religion, violence or persecution, these displaced people are often not even considered to be refugees. Present international law has no special provisions for these people, and as a result this miscommunication and disregard is causing a major lack of aid and understanding for these particular cases that are growing daily. In 2015 the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, recorded more than 203 million displacements in the past eight years, which is equivalent to the population of Brazil. Scientists predict that those numbers will exacerbate within the next 50 years.
As this issue worses by the day, it is crucial that this topic gains more recognition amongst larg-
er communities. Although numerous attempts to aid and spread awareness on this issue by individuals, governments and nonprofits such the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Global Protection Cluster, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), and The Nansen Initiative.
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a refugee is not: A refugee is not someone who willingly leaves their home. A refugee is not someone who is easily granted access to another country. A refugee is not someone who can safely live in their home country. A refugee is not someone who is always legally protected.
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a refugee is: A refugee is someone who is forced to flee their home. A refugee is someone who must flee their home due to persecution, war, and violence. A refugee is someone who does not feel safe in their home country. A refugee is someone who is not always legally protected.
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a climate refugee is: A climate refugee is someone who is forced to flee their home. A climate refugee is someone who must entirely relocate their life, families, and culture to another place due to environmental changes caused by man’s effect on the earth that have made their home a space that is no longer safely inhabitable. A climate refugee is someone who is not legally protected or recognized. A climate refugee is someone who is not threatened by man but threatened by the environmental effects of man.
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The opportunity
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Numerous attempts have been made from governments, individuals, nonprofits, but this leaves much to be desired for improving for these refugees, therefore there’s a need for a multi platform system to address more specifically the needs of these individuals. Specifically global warming and climate change has affected numerous individuals and groups of people where governments and laws have failed many of these people. We at Displaceus hope to raise awareness and aid for climate refugees. Knowledge on this issue is scarce amongst the general public - those who can make a difference. Although there are efforts being made to save and relocate these refugees to new homes that will be able to support them, there is not enough being done to prepare the refugees with the changes to come in their life. We hope to shine light on this growing issue and arouse support amongst the public, in order to raise awareness on climate refugees and climate change in general.
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Brand Identity
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Brand Identity
We are reframe - a design studio specializing on tackling the toughest problems by employing design thinking. The founders of the firm found it essential to ask questions in order to reframe the problem at hand when solving complex problems. The mission for our firm is to create a culture and deliver work that has thought of all avenues and variables. We want to make sure we design the best solution by taking all frames of minds into account. How we reframe Discover - Ideate - Craft - Evaluate
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Meet the team The four designers and makers that make products that they are passionate about at our studio.
Daniel Park
Kristin Rivas
Maria Pelissier
Norah Murphy
After forming the firm with his colleagues, Daniel took on the role of directing design from a product standpoint for every project. If he could have it his way, a white box would be his dream home.
Through her detailed mind and analytical skills, Kristin is able to gather and pull insights from all of the research that she does for each project. She can also sing the alphabet backwards.
Maria is a very talented designer and has background in designing automobiles. Her proudct design background was essential to the success of our firm and projects.
As a user experience designer, Norah is able to empathize with her users when designing products and experiences. She is also able to eat cereal for every meal in the day and be completely fine with it.
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Design Firm
A sneak peek in our office and how it looks like to reframe the challenges of the world.
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Inspiration: RKS Design
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Design Process
What they do RKS is a global design firm that works closely with start-ups and corporations in order to tackle their design problems. They transform opportunity by heavily using research and strategy.
What we liked
How we used this process
As the world is changing at a rapid
These three steps - Discover, Create,
pace, at roben we wanted to pride our-
and Realize - are what helped us shape
selves in an iterative process like how
our design process. However, we iter-
RKS design uses their process.
ate at each step and not from different steps.
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Inspiration: IDEO
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What they do IDEO is an international design and consulting firm. They have a strong focal point in human factors design and are moving towards management consulting and organizational design so that the companies they work with can also employ human factors design.
What we liked
How we used this process
Much like how RKS is a iterative de-
In order to make products that people
sign firm, we loved the way that IDEO
would love, we wanted to incorporate
presented their design process. When
the userfeedback stage from IDEO
the firm started, all four of us wanted
into our own process.
to make sure that we design products that not only people would use, but products that they would love.
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Inspiration: k12 Lab
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What they do k12 is a design organization that teaches students and other design firms how to use the design thinking process. They work mainly with students and organizations who don’t have resources.
What we liked
How we used this process
Although k12 Lab is not a traditional
Not wanting to just frame our mind
design firm, they have outlined a de-
and develop empathy to just one user
sign process that resonates with our
group, we want to use this process and
firm. Their initial step is to frame their
then iterate it by reframing it so that
mindset by developing empathy.
we can cover all of our bases when designing different solutions.
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reframe Ideate frame
Discover
Ideate
Craft
Evaluate
frame frame
Ideate
Question Brainstorm Research
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Prototype Test Make
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Discover
Ideate
At this stage we discover the need
After converging on a single question
and areas of interest that can be ap-
that we want to approach with design,
proached through a design process.
we then want to concept multiple
After honing in onto one topic, we
solutions, map out key stakehodlers,
would then conduct a lot of research
and then prioritize those concepts.
and ask as many questions as we can.
Craft
Evaluate
In the craft stage, it is our hope to re-
Iteration doesn’t end after the craft
alize our project through a form that
stage. In the evaluate stage we want to
is tangible and real. After crafting a
validate our solution and change or im-
product we then want to iterate over it
prove our product according to the way
within this stage so that we can make
that people react to it.
sure that we made a human centered product.
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Displaceus A global intervention for the climate refugee problem
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Overview
Project Overview Displaceus is a multi platform approach to the problem of climate change refugees. We are hoping to roll out a plan that starts with the refugees, then the consumers, and finally the policy makers. We decided that this was the best approach to the issue because we want to impact the problem by providing solutions to the micro then branch out to the macro environment.
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Discover In this phase of our project, we wanted to discover what areas we are able to design for and where we can provide impact accross all people who are involved in this climate refugee problem.
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Survey No. 1
Setting the stage In our first survey, we wanted to guage the consumers and try to understand how much they know about our topic and if they are aware of climate change refugees. We asked a lot of basic questions in order to gain insights. Methodology: Sent an online survey to close family and friends. Then asked them to ask their friends and family. We have around 50 responses total.
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Survey No. 2
Going a little deeper In this next survey, we wanted to validate that there is a lack of knowledge or awareness in consumers that there is a climate change refugee versus the other refugee types. Methodology: Sent this survey to mainly college students who fit our persona. Got back around 34 responses.
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Where will the climate change refugees go?
Haiti Earthquake
Disaster Relief: Here to Help
Refugee Status Determination
Refusal of Asylum
Asylum & The Rights of Refugees
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Case Study No. 1
Where will the climate change refugees go? Aljazeera provided information stating that it is estimated that 25 million - 1 billion people will be displaced by the middle of this century due to issues involving climate change, and a good portion of those people are refugees. The most shocking fact about this is that the refugees are not even considered refugees and receive no help because of this. Their human rights are in question due to the lack of legal categorization which in turn affects their ability to be protected under legislation. This case study provides solid information on the reasoning behind the fact that climate change refugees are not considered refugees. This reason being is the 1951 Refugee Convention. This convention only focused on those affected by racial, religious, or national discrimination and drafted legislation for their protection and recognition as refugees. Because of this, places like Bangladesh harbor over 200,000 homeless people who lost their homes as a result of river erosion. This case study may provide great information behind why people displaced from climate change aren’t considered refugees, but it doesn’t provide much information on initiatives being taken to help those people. It mentions the Nansen Initiative, which is a program “aimed at building a consensus on a protection agenda for displaced people impacted by environmental disasters or climate change” but other than that it does not discuss any other initiative taking place. Overall, it is clear to see that climate change is affecting those living on earth. The water level is rising and the ice caps are mention, environmental changes are expected to have a huge affect on the entire population. Taking this into account, it’s shocking to see that these displaced people are hardly receiving any help and aren’t seen as refugees.
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Haiti Earthquake Overview According to the American Red Cross the earthquake in Haiti that occurred on January 12th, 2010 had multiple consequences and severely impacted nearly 2 million people in different ways. More than 200,000 died in this disaster and around 1.5 million people were left homeless. Also, as a side consequence of this tragedy, according to the newspaper Diario Libre, from Dominican Republic, the Haitian population increased by 15% in Dominican Republic within the five first months after the earthquake. It is important to note that event when Haiti and Dominican Republic are two different countries sharing one single island the earthquake hit Haiti harder because the epicenter of the earthquake was in Haiti, additionally Dominican Republic is better prepared for this type of situation. Additionally, it is relevant to mention that the immigrants that cross the border to Dominican Republic do not have refugee status, instead they are considered illegal immigrants, in fact the authorities from Dominican Republic made efforts to stop the immigrants. Note that this natural disaster does not classify as a climate situation because it is not an atmospheric phenomenon.
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Positive As the images on the left and above show, (taken from the 5 year report of the American Red Cross) funds received by the American Red Cross were divided mainly in 7 categories in order to help Haiti mitigating the effects of the earthquake. This categories were emergency relief, shelter, water and sanitation, livelihoods, health (excluding cholera), disaster preparedness and cholera. Through the usage of those funds in that way the American Red Cross was able to help millions of Haitians, got access to different kinds of aids like housing recovery, risk reduction activities, improved water and sanitation, and many others more. Takeaway This case is relevant for our project because it gives us to important lessons. First, when helping in an emergency or in similar it is always important to include reserve money for situations that were not planned in the initial budget. In Haiti this happened with the cholera outbreak, which is why in all the reports it is listed separate from health. The Red Cross did not plan or anticipate that a cholera outbreak was going to happen, yet they were able to respond to it. The second lesson is that in several cases this refugees can be considered illegal immigrants, which might be useful for us when we plan to address the policy makers. Also we can use this information in the kit to tell the refugees if they can apply for refugee status and how.
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Case Study No. 3
Disaster Relief: Here to Help Overview The American Red Cross is known for their humanitarian relief efforts conducted daily in places across the world. Because the Red Cross’ reach is so expansive, they are faced with various cases daily which requires designated attention to each independent case. This need for individual attention is very much applicable to the types of disasters they are helping with. The American Red Cross alters their relief efforts in order to better cater to the situation that they are currently aiding. This case study in particular focuses on how the Red Cross adapts their resources to the “needs of the people.” According the Red Cross, they respond to emergencies every 8 minutes, and there are more than 65,000 disaster cases that they handle yearly. When responding to these cases the American Red Cross covers six basic areas and makes sure that these areas are modified to be helpful to specific situations. The six areas are: overnight shelters, distribution of emergency supplies, health and mental health contacts, meals, workers, and emergency response vehicles. Takeaway The positives of the Red Cross Disaster Relief efforts are that they are actively providing assistance to victims of disasters that are out of their control. They have identified the most important areas that require attention and aid, and have partnered with many different stakeholders to assure that these areas are catered to. The negatives to their relief efforts however, is that it seems like the relief efforts stop once they have delivered their goods and provided aid during the time of the most damage, it does not seem like long term relief efforts. One of the biggest takeaways that our business can take from the American Red Cross, is there “comfort kit” which falls under their distribution of emergency supplies. Their comfort kit is something that we would like to mimic in the sense of acting as comforting materials for different physical environments and social cultures. Another takeaway is their ability to identify the needs of the people they are helping. We would like to use this as an example to help us better define our focus. We would also learn from this case study by finding ways to provide long term relief efforts to climate refugees, rather than solely helping them in their moving process.
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Refugee Status Determination Overview According to the UNHCR, someone applying to be a refugee must send in a registration that will then be looked over by RSD specialists who are part of the UNHCR and are highly trained in the selection of who can be considered a refugee. The UNHCR works to ensure that they implement the most fair and just ways of determining someone’s status and therefore ensuring they get the help they need. Takeaway There are good and bad parts to this report, but it is extremely unspecific. All it says is that refugees who seek help must send in a registration. There are over 250,000 registered refugees under the UNHCR receiving aid, but what’s completely shocking about this is that there are over 25 million refugees worldwide. Clearly, there needs to be a way to make it easier for refugees to be considered just that; a refugee. There is help being provided to those who have been qualified through the UNHCR as refugees, but the number of people they are helping everyday is not even a fraction of those worldwide who are suffering. Something needs to be done to provide these uncategorized refugees with the help they need.
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Case Study No. 5
Refusal of Asylum Overview Mohammed is a victim from the armed conflict in Darfur, he left his country of Sudan in order to go to the United Kingdom, because he was told things were better over there. Mohammad tried to make his way to the U.K. by entering the European Union through Greece. However, he was not conscious of the long and complicated procedure that was needed in order to acquire asylum status. As a result from that, Mohammad was incarcerated for crossing borders illegally. Now, Mohammed has a better understanding of these laws, he requested refugee status and have all the evidence he needs for proving that he requires asylum, however this process usually takes a long time and due to changes in the European legislation it might take even longer. Takeaway Due to policies from different countries getting asylum is getting harder and harder, in fact, having truthful and consistent evidence that a person really needs asylum does not guarantee getting it. It is important for people who are planning to request asylum in other countries to be aware of the process that needs to be done in order to request refugee status.
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Asylum & The Rights of Refugees Overview The International Justice Resource Center breaks down the overall legality of a refugee. In the overview it addresses four key parts: legal protections, who is a refugee?, exceptions: exclusions and cessation clauses, and what rights do refugees have? The most important part to first review is the “who is a refugee” portion of the document. According to the overview, a majority of the understanding of what a refugee is and how they are to be legally treated is based off of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. However, they do note that many State parties are at liberty to determine their own interpretation of what a refugee is. Article 1(A)(2) of the 1951 Convention defines a refugee as an “individual who is outside his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is unable or unwilling to return due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on his or her race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.” It also excludes individuals who are victims of “natural disasters” from being a part of this definition. Through this we learn that people who are not victims of the listed determining factors are not legally recognized as refugees, and are therefore not protected by law. Takeaway The positive to this is that legal action is taken to protect refugees. However, coming from a place where there is a desire for legal recognition to be given to climate refugees, the document is not doing anything helpful. What we can take away from this is an understanding of how climate refugees are or are not recognized legally. This will help us in our movement towards redefining policy in order to help give these climate refugees the recognition that they deserve.
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Christopher Maturo Civil Engineer for R3M, New Jersey
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Understanding of rising sea levels
Infrastructure that can prevent floods
Current data trends show significant sea
Resounding yes. Floodwalls are more com-
level rise over several years due to increased
monly used such as in pump stations. For
carbon in the atmosphere, changes in oce-
shorelines, bulkheads which act as large
anic currents and several other factors.
Rockwall are commonly used. Flows can be mapped out calculated and diverted to non vital areas with surface channels and subsurface pipes.
Effect of rising sea levels on civil engineer
Price and time of infrastructure
In terms of stormwater and resiliency it
Prices can range from the millions to tens of
changes the way the storms related preven-
millions in the case of the walls. It depends
tion structures are designed to handle and it
mainly on the size of the project and various
it changes the ways and considerations that
other factors such location, the size of the
towns are designed for and how to create
municipalities and the zoning regulations
town resiliency from high level storm events.
and can take several years to imple,enter in some cases.
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Yaella Depietri Environmental Studies Fellow, The New School - New York
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Have you ever worked in a project related to climate change?
Have you ever worked in a project that affect people’s life?
Yes. The first project I worked which was
Yes I looked at the impacts of heat waves
related to climate change was water re-
in the Cologne, Germany region. I assessed
sources management in the Brahmaputra
vulnerability of city inhabitants to extreme
transnational river basin. We were looking at
heat and the role of green infrastructures in
the impacts of climate change on the water
mitigating risk to this hazard.
availability, agriculture and livelihoods in the region.
What can we do in order to be more responsible with the environment?
What do you think is the best way to make people aware and active about environmental issues?
Change something within us, we need
Social movements are particularly effective
to recognize we live with limits which we
in mobilizing resources and power to raise
should not cross and we are part of a system
awareness to environmental problems. Ed-
which is limited. We need to understand this
ucation and mass media re also central
as we are crossing planetary boundaries, our economies are too large.
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Nak Abelard 68 Year Old Mother Maldives, South Asia Naak is the grandmother of five children and still takes care of them daily. She has been contacted by humanitarian workers in order to inform her that she needs to move from the Maldives. Through the day in the life, we wanted to pinpoint some of they key activities in her current life so that we can try our best to preserve her life as much as possible in our intervention.
Persona No. 1
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6:00 am
Personas
Wake up and make breakfast
7:00 am 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm
Return home and cook dinner
5:00 pm Do house chores for the children and family 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm
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Jeremy Davis 22 Year Old Student New York University, New York Currently a student at NYU studying computer science. Is unaware of how his actions can impact people’s lives around the world. We want to use where Jeremy’s been in order to intervene with social media and create exposure about these issues in his life.
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8:00 am
Personas
Wake up and take a 20 minute shower Head to the dorm cafeteria to eat breakfast
9:00 am
Head to his 9am psychology class
10:00 am 11:00 am
Meet up with his friends to head to the dorm cafeteria to eat lunch
12:00 pm
Head to starbucks to get an americano
1:00 pm
Attend his philosophy class
2:00 pm 3:00 pm
Head to bobst library to study
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Go to his game club meeting at Kimmel building
7:00 pm
Head out to dinner with his friends at a nearby restaurant
8:00 pm
Go to a panel talk and mixer
9:00 pm
Head home Head to the study area in his dorm to study
10:00 pm 11:00 pm Go to sleep 12:00 am
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Existing System Map
Educators Children
Celebrities
Students
Write
Families Countries Towns
Climate Refugees
Everyday Consumers
Environment Workers Volunteers
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President Lawyers
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Broad System Map
Red Cross UN Policy Makers
Prime Ministers Law Makers Judges Researchers
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Summary Our greatest insights from this phase In our first survey, we wanted to guage the consumers and try to understand how much they know about our topic and if they are aware of climate change refugees. We asked a lot of basic questions in order to gain insights.
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Key Insights
The greatest insights from the Discover Phase 100% of the people surveyed believe in climate change 71% of people believed they could do something about climate change, 29% believed they could NOT 92% of people know what a general refugee is 65% of people do NOT know what a climate change refugee is 55.6% of the people surveyed think that climate change was a common cause of forced displacement 66.7% of people surveyed did NOT think they were living among refugees 25 mil - 1 billion people will be displaced as a result of climate change by the middle of this century 2 million people were affected by the Haiti earthquake, which is a natural disaster, and 1.5 million of those people were left homeless Red Cross comfort kit helps those they are helping to feel comforted and safe Redefining policy is a must if anything needs to be done to help with the asylum of refugees around the world Changes in the environment are extremely clear, such as rising sea levels which affect the lives of many people living in coastal areas 250, 000 refugees are registered under the UN receiving aid, but there are 25 million refugees worldwide. Yaella Depietri makes a point that we live with limits which we should not cross and we are a part of a system that is limited. Climate change refugees have the smallest say, but are the most affected by climate change itself, while policy makers have the most power but tend to be least affected As a result, our organization focuses on specific areas of climate change refugees to give them more of a say and limit the policy makers who have power
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Overview
Ideate In this phase of our project, we wanted to discover what areas we are able to design for and where we can provide impact accross all people who are involved in this climate refugee problem.
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Climate Refugee Toolkit Helping the displaced adapt to their new home Refugees are in need as much help as they can get whether they are in need of food, clean water, clothing or shelter. As an organization set out to help them with a smooth transition as they’re relocated to new homes, we have put together a Toolkit that will provide refugees with what they need to survive until they’re settled in. There is a primary model for our Toolkit that includes items that suit the possible needs of all refugees. Following that, there is an option for add-ons that will suit the needs of specific situations that the organization can choose to include in their kit.
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Social Media Challenge Using a challenge to reach the consumers and raise awareness at the same time The reason why we wanted to do a social media challenge is because we knew that in order to be able to help climate change refugees, we needed to make people aware that theses people exist, because on the long run when people is know of their existence that could lead them to evaluate better their choices, on contamination, on politics or even on just being thankful for what they have. We chose to do this on social media because we know that many people around the world is active on them, especially on developed countries, that are the ones who are have a bigger input on climate change, so that mean that our campaign would have more expose. Also, the decision from making our campaign a challenge was inspired by previous campaigns that have had the same challenge format, and that are enjoyed, have became viral and raised a lot of funds. Finally, the last thing mentioned had a big influence on taking the decision of launching this campaign, we knew that we have to raise funds somehow in order to be able to finance our project and be able to help climate change refugees. We accept donations as small as a dollar, since we did not want to lose donors because we were asking for a large amount of money. We consider that every act can help.
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Policy Change Making a real change by implementing policy We consider this a problem because we think that laws that were made in the past are now outdated and exclusive, they do not consider important global problems that are very relevant nowadays, such as climate change. This legal loophole have left unprotected many people who have been affected in a severe negative way by climate change, not acknowledging the fact that they are being forced to leave their homes.
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Craft After ideating on a couple of different concepts for each of our different frames, we move onto the craft stage. This is where detail design comes into play. We want to create a specific solution from the many solutions that we came up with.
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Intervention System Map
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Displaceus Intervention 1
Climate Refugee Toolkit What’s in the basic kit?
Crucial Information
Geographical Information
It is key for anyone when moving to a new
In this map, we will provide key directions
country to be well informed about the mi-
and locations in order to help them with
gratory laws. Refugees should know all the
their stay and transition period. It’s import-
background information they need for both
ant to have this information especially in an
short and long term stay.
area with a language barrier.
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Language Help
Emergency Supplies
Depending on which country the refugee
In case of an emergency no matter the sit-
goes to, the kit will provide translations of
uation, we wanted to provide with some es-
key phrases and terms. Relevant local laws
sentials. These include: Water, canned food,
will also be compared with the refugee’s
First Aid Kit, Emergency sleeping supplies,
original country.
radio, and a canteen.
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Tool kit usage - a sample scenario
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New Zealand has opened it’s gates to welcome refugees who are affected by climate change and are in need of help, whether they’re actually considered refugees or not. One of the best refugee-to-salvation relationships is between Tuvalu, a small series of nine Polynesian islands in the west of the Pacific Ocean, and Auckland, an urban epicenter of Northland in New Zealand. Tuvalu is a series of nine small islands located in the Western Pacific Ocean. They are suffering from rising sea levels which happen as a result of global warming, melting of the ice caps, and frequent rainfall that they don’t have the technology to store. As a nation of only 11,000 people, the Tuvaluan society thrives off of trading goods such as fish, woven mats and their capability to build homes and host agriculture. They mainly speak Tuvaluan, which is a Polynesian language, but they have almost no form of communication besides a radio system that only a handful of citizens have control over.
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In 2000, the Tuvaluan prime minister contacted New Zealand and reached out for help as Tuvalu began to suffer from climate change and rising sea levels. He asked New Zealand to take in around 3,000 refugees that were in need of major help and as a result they developed a relationship in which New Zealand hosts Tuvaluan refugees when help is requested. New Zealand is located in the Pacific Ocean, consisting of three different islands; North, South and Stewart. It’s a very urbanized nation where the main language is English and their cultural background is mainly European. Their economy is made up of mostly exports such as dairy, fish, wine, and meat along with logging plantation farms and car manufacturing. They mainly eat tropical fruits, vegetables, meat and fast food. New Zealand is home to many educational institutions, including seven colleges that host successful Tuvaluan students. They’re a very friendly society where people enjoying sharing affection and are filled with good humor and friendliness.
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After looking at the culture behind both New Zealand and Tuvalu, there are clear cultural differences that the refugees would need to be adjusted to in order to make a clean and easy transition from their home to salvation from their disappearing nation. Seeing as the Tool Kit can be changed by those who are providing the refugees with the tool kit, in this case the New Zealand citizens, it is possible to suit the specific needs for the Tuvaluan refugees. Below are examples of what would be provided by the organization for a specific transition such as this one.
Crucial Information
Geographical Information
Language Help
Emergency Supplies
Etiquette Tips
Clothing
New Zealand is a country that has a lot of
New Zealand is a very urban environment,
mannerisms and we think that including
while Tuvalu is a much more traditional one.
some of the most crucial ones that are dif-
We will include some basic clothes and
ferent from the country of origin would be
shoes that fit the modernization of New Zea-
important to include in the new kit.
land so that the transition is easier.
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Displaceus Intervention 1
Social Media Challenge - All I Need The Instructions
The Rules
Must be conducted on facebook live.
Must complete in under 1 minute.
You must introduce yourself by saying your
Cannot receive assistance during the pack-
name and that you accept the ALL I NEED
ing from ANYONE or thing.
challenge and nominate 2 people. Cannot pre prepare the objects you will Say I pledge $1 to the Displaceus project if I
pack or have them laid out or easily acces-
do not complete the challenge in 1 minute.
sible to pack. Video may not be edited, can only be live streamed. If the player loses they must donate $1 or more to the Displaceus project.
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LIVE
280 Viewers
Mary Jimenez Kristin, this is hilarioius
Ann Wong You go girl!
Philip Hughes Don’t forget your shampoo!
Denise Smith Where are you going to go with all this stuff? ? ?
Maria Simmons Kristin, this is hilarioius
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Policy Change What does the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention say about refugees? The previous texts, make reference to who is a refugee and under what circumstances, specifying that the term should be used for a person who have had to leave his/her country against their will, because of social and/or political persecution. These text make clear that the causes for requesting asylum should be well proved and well fundamented, and not different from the ones mentioned.
How are we changing it? We are proposing adjustments to the current existing laws, as our design firm believes in iteration and improvement. Our proposal aims to officialise climate change asylum seekers as refugees, acknowledging that they are being victims of a man made situation.
Why do we want to address international politics? We are proposing adjustments to the current existing laws, as our design firm believes in iteration and improvement. Our proposal aims to officialise climate change asylum seekers as refugees, acknowledging that they are being victims of a man made situation.
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Evaluate After crafting our ideas, it’s time to take it to the world and evaluate how effective they are. Through this process, we are able to prototype and make improvements to the interventions we designed.
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What values Displaceus provides Displaceus tackles the climate refugee problem from 3 sides: The refugee, the consumer, and the policy maker. By creating this multi platform intervention, we are able to deal with the issue of climate refugees both in the short term and in the long term. By taking this multi-pronged approach, this project will contribute to important changes immediately, then work it’s way in solving the problem altogether in the future.
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How our solutions scale The biggest thing about Displaceus is that it is a 3 step approach to the climate change refugee problem. We are aware that this problem is one at a very large scale and we have designed our interventions to take this into account. First, we want to make immediate impact at the refugee level by providing the kid. Then in the future after the kit efforts, we want to use social media to create awareness. After the awareness stage, we hope to make policy change at a global scale.
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Short term goals Our short term goals are to affect first and foremost the climate refugees. Our biggest concern is reaching them on a level where they receive recognition and support. We want to make it known that we understand that their journeys are not easy and deserve guidance, equipment, and support throughout their transition and long after they have resettled. We are striving to bring about awareness to everyday consumers of media who are just as powerful of a force in providing the climate refugees with recognition and support. Our creation of the social media “All I Need� Challenge will make this issue a widespread topic of discussion and awareness which we hope will eventually become a conversation that people in policy will be having.
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Long term goals Looking to the future, we hope to continue to shine light on this overlooked topic and people. We hope to bring more awareness to the issue of climate change and how it will continue to exacerbate and affect millions of people around the world if serious measures are not taken by consumers and policy makers. We hope to expand our services and grow with our partners to become better providers to the climate refugees. And most importantly, we hope to reframe the policy that affects the climate refugees in terms of legal recognition, relocation, and government assistance.
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Next step for the project Moving forward from this point, Displaceus will continue to evolve as a project working towards understanding and meeting the needs of the climate refugees. We will work towards improving the equipment that we provide to the climate refugees, and will strengthen our existing partnerships while establishing new ones. Displaceus will seek guidance from legal consultants in order to gain a stronger understanding of the policies that do and do not affect the climate refugees in order to more effectively reframe it so that it is applicable and helpful to them. We will move forward with our media campaigns in order to continue to create awareness amongst the public and will continue to innovate more effective methods of reaching our stakeholders.
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Next step for the company Displaceus was one of the first projects that we are taking on as a company. Our philosophy is that we are never done with one project. Instead, we will continue to make improvements and work on evolving our current interventions. While working on Displaceus, as a firm we hope to tackle more problems in the world that need reframing in order to create possible solutions. We are looking for projects for social and environmental change that will make a positive impact on civilians.
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Next step for human kind Humankind must move forward with a desire for a revolution that supports a stronger fight against climate change. They must recognize and correct their actions if they do not align with the fight and must understand the repercussions of their actions. Lastly, humankind must be more empathetic towards the people that their decisions affect because at the end of the day we are all affected by climate change and may some day all be climate refugees.
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