REFUGEE CAMP FOR THE FIRST WORLD CITIZENS
A Project by the FIRST WORLD CAMP

REFUGEE CAMP FOR THE FIRST WORLD CITIZENS
There never has been a refugee camp in the post World War II history, which would have been created in advance, that has been planned before the extreme situation has happened. We know of several refugee camps though that have been created after WWII and still exist (e.g. Palestinian camps).

The Project Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens is based on a hypotethical (hypothetical and ethical) situation (political, social, military, security, natural catastrophy ...) in which the citizens of highly developed countries (mainly from the West) would be forced to leave their country and look for a temporary home in another country.

Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens takes the camp as a biopolitical paradigm for the contemporary West. The camp is always a parallel system, literally a 'para'-system, an exterritorialized site, where the usual legal system does not apply. And yet, exactly as such, it is a place or even a non-place which the regular legal system can turn to any time.

Refugee camps are improvized urban and architectonic solutions, with a strong signature of temporariness.

The camp is a state of exception, a state of emergency upon which the entire political and legal system of the First World is built.

Improvisation and temporariness generate permanent tensions and problems in relation between local environment and people on the one hand and the refugees on the other hand. The environment reacts negatively on temporary urban interventions.
We ask ourselves simple question: is it possible to create a temporary living situation which would provide the refugees with a decent living even under forced conditions. We are interested in developing a camp situation which would upgrade emporariness with long term, special ways of the refugees' integration into their new environment.
The Project Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens is a long term conceptual and research project, which involves architectural, political, cultural, media and artistic dimensions.