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Formens Hus in Hällefors, Sweden stands for new thinking. With the challenge to contribute to sustainable development, Formens Hus, has today developed into an Innovative Centre for Sustainable Design. Using design as the driver, inspiration, and tool, Formens Hus creates the opportunities for innovative crossroads between different competences and participants from industry, society, and academic institutions. |
Sudden natural disasters often result in large numbers of people being displaced because their homes have been lost due to flooding, earthquakes or heavy storms. War and conflicts often force people to flee their home and their country due to threats of violence and persecution. Subsequently, emergency shelters are needed to create temporary homes for these people.
International relief organizations have largely relied on tents and tarps to provide temporary shelters. A tent has a life span of approximately six months before it breaks down from the impact of sun, rain and wind. Then the tent has to be replaced by a new one and the costs to the relief organizations are immense. Protracted refugee situations will, on average, make refugees stay in camps for 12 years.
Formens Hus established a project in 2008 to challenge a number of industrial design institutions to find new solutions for temporary shelters that would meet all the right criteria for sustainability, durability and specifications for weight and dimension – in other words a new solution for temporary shelter that would significantly reduce the overall costs to provide a temporary home for displaced people.
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Many refugees stay in camps an average of 12 years
Millions of people lose their home due to natural disasters or conflicts every year.
