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2016

Sustainable reconstruction with displaced

academicsEmtairah, Tareq and Avery, Helen and Mourad, Khaldoon

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Emtairah, Tareq and Avery, Helen and Mourad, Khaldoon (2016) Sustainable reconstruction with

displaced academics. In: Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD), 13-15 Oct

2016, Toronto, Canada. Available at http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/1914/

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VISIONING WITH DISPLACED ACADEMICS

A strategy for sustainable reconstruction?

TAREQ EMTAIRAH - HELEN AVERY – KHALDOON MOURAD

• Scenario workshops:

series of three 2-day meetings

only Syrian academics, open visioning,

working with the long term

producing narratives

• Visioning Labs:

multiple half-day events

50/50 participants, cross-cutting topics

formulating problems, identifying entry-points