Edinburgh Napier University

  This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinary research—a shelter prototype called Makazi (winner at the UK 2019 RISE Awards). This follow-on project allows building full-scale Makazi in four different countries (Jordan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa) through strong and constant engagement with users and stakeholders. We will collect unprecedented primary data on as-built life cycle costs and environmental impacts, whilst assessing users comfort and the social suitability of our five regional variants developed form the core Makazi concept.