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Kick-starting DeCID with a collective analysis session
To initiate the DeCID project´s research collaboration, project investigators, researchers and academics met for a collective analysis session to discuss gaps in the research, areas for further...
View ArticleDigital alternatives in response to Covid-19 measures
Due to precautions and government measures around Covid-19, the DeCID team is now working hard (from home) to devise digital alternatives to continue to deliver our practical toolkit for the co-design...
View ArticleParticipatory Spatial Intervention: Addressing vulnerabilities through...
What are the challenges of a world where large-scale displacement has become the ‘new normal’? How are local communities impacted by the rapid influx of people? And how can the design of infrastructure...
View ArticleThe Participation of Children in Displacement
On May 6 2020, we invited practitioners with knowledge and experience in the participation of children in displacement to discuss preliminary findings from interviews and share their insights with us....
View ArticleWorking With Children Affected by Displacement – Thematic Brief No. 1
According to UNHCR, by the end of 2018, armed conflict, persecution, human rights violations, deteriorating political and socioeconomic conditions, and violence had led to the forced displacement of...
View ArticleChildren and Urban Displacement – Thematic Brief No. 2
The global phenomenon of displacement continues to be on the rise and is taking on a “forced” and “protracted” nature. It has also become predominantly “urban”, which presents particular challenges for...
View ArticleRecruitment of Dissertation Fellows
DeCID has recruited six Dissertation Fellows from University College London’s Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) to support CatalyticAction and DeCID Investigators with research related to the...
View ArticleChild Development and Participation in Urban Displacement – Thematic Brief No. 3
DeCID has launched its third thematic brief which delves deeper into the topics of child development and participation in the context of urban displacement. Previous thematic briefs focused on children...
View ArticleDeCID Investigators receive Artful Integrators Award for participatory design...
DeCID partner CatalyticAction has received the Artful Integrators Award at the Participatory Design Conference 2020, for the project “Participatory Spatial Intervention: Addressing vulnerabilities...
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DeCID Toolkit Launch Webinar
Webinar Join us for the launch of our toolkit for Co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement 16 July 2020 2-3pm BST Register here: https://zoom.us/w/99680856609 Or...
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Launch of toolkit for co-designing built interventions with children affected...
Thursday, July 16, 2020, marked the launch of the DeCID toolkit for co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement. In line with the toolkit’s interdisciplinary approach, we...
View ArticleDPU, CatalyticAction, UN-Habitat and UNICEF create a practical handbook for...
The DeCID handbook is a practical toolkit for actors involved in co-designing with children affected by displacement. It stands for ‘Designing with children in displacement’, an abbreviation that plays...
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