Refugees // 3 Strategies

This week we have arrived at our future scenario for the need to relocate and provide shelter or community services for 100 000 refugees. We then came up with 3 possible solutions, which would allow these refugees to contribute to Australian society in a positive way, and therefore, would also be beneficial to the Australian government, economy and society.

01 RURAL

The first strategy is to relocate small groups of refugees to rural properties to farm and assist land owners. This would allow them to contribute to Australia's agricultural industry, benefiting from skills that they may already have (if they have come from a farming background in their country of origin).

02 URBAN

This strategy involves the integration of refugees into existing cities by allowing them to occupy temporarily disused/abandoned urban space ("terrain vague"), and then move on to another site once the current one is to be "officially" used again. The advantage of this strategy is that the refugees are located in cities, close to services, education and jobs, therefore encouraging them to contribute to Australia's economy and the urban fabric of the cities. Also this would be a possible solution to the increasing problem of urban sprawl.

03 COASTAL

The third option, which I consider to be the least viable solution, is to base some of the refugees along Australia’s coastline on mobile water craft communities. This could be of possible aid to the fishing industry. The floating communities could be moored/docked near any of Australia's existing ports.