• Ghizlaine Mallek

  • Refuge in Placemaking: How Trauma-Informed Design and Craft Cultivate Home

    Refuge in Placemaking: How Trauma-Informed Design + Craft Cultivate Home
    One in every 95 people on this planet has been forced to flee their home because of conflict or persecution. Along their journey, they incur trauma even as they attempt to create a semblance of home in their shelter. Refugees typically begin to process their trauma only after settling in a shelter post-migration, but many post-migration sites are not designed to promote healing. For this thesis project, I reimagined an existing post-migration site—the only refugee shelter in New York City—through the lens of trauma care, employing craft with the aim of facilitating the creation of home by shelter residents.

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