The 28-Day Program: A Refugee Integration Support Program In Liverpool, Uk
The 28-Day Program: A Refugee Integration Support Program In Liverpool, Uk

Author(s): Chien-Yi Chu
Subject(s): Architecture, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: ARGIS (augmented reality GIS); assimilation; dérive; integration; Pokémon Go; psychogeography; refugee; situationist; urban design; architecture;
Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a response to the refugee crisis in Liverpool, UK, examining the degree to which the built environment can bridge differences between host and refugee. It is based on a British policy giving refugees 28 days to turn things around, from utter strangers to functional citizens. This is limited and if not augmented could fail and yield more frustrations than success. The proposal takes the 28 days and reprograms them along an itinerary with which to foster mutual forms of appreciation. It relies on the theory of the “dérive;” but also scale and recent developments in an app.

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