DongfangXie_Abstract_V3

An University for Refugee

The campus will be a high density complex, and its purpose is to solve the most fundamental
issues for survival and education. The functions will include food support, library, housing,
community service, medicine, commercial, classroom and student center. And the education
content will mainly about the language learning, culture communication, and working skill
training. The school encourages local volunteers and other universities all over the world working
together to centralize all the advanced society/education resources to solve the refugee problem.
Also, with the help of the information technology, the university allows students study various
majors through Internet and digital devices.
The housing part is a high density collective habitation which is able to contain 15,000 males and
females in total. The types of apartment will meet the demanding of singles, families, and
disabled people. The whole campus building will touch the ground with commercial space, food
support, and medicine center. In the medicine center, the psychotherapy department will be the
biggest part which will work with volunteers together and provide psychological therapy and
consultation. As a place for socialization, dining hall or restaurant will be a public space services
both students and citizens. To enhance the connection with the city, the campus should be tied
closely with the city transportation network. Student center will establish a cooperation with the
local government so that the most of the immigration problems( like identity ) can be directly
solved. The diverse public spaces are valued, for they play a very important role in bridging the
culture gaps and avoiding the isolation. Due to the multiple religion backgrounds of the students,
the design of all the public spaces and facilities will respect all the different customs as possible
as it could. And Considering the it might be a long term problem, the campus will also provide
the preschool education for the second generation of students.
Except the living issues, another urgent problem is about education. For the most part of the
refugees only have or under primary-school education level, the campus will provide language
class and all kinds of entry-level knowledge training. The positions for teaching and
administration will open to volunteers and proficient people, and it also encourages students
with the quality joining in the faculty and participating in the campus management. No matter
what nationality that students are, or what religion background they have, both men and women
will be treated equally and permitted to use all the resources in the campus. As for the classes, to
make sure the students can fully engage in the city and have a job to support themselves after
they graduate, skill training and career introduction will be the focus of the education. However,
other topics like painting, literature, music, opera, engineering, computing, mathematics, etc,
which are highly proficient and extremely multiple will be more likely to look for collaboration
with other universities in the world through Internet. In these subjects, the virtual/augmented
reality devices and human computer interaction system will be largely used in the teaching
process.

Dongfang Xie
UMID: 39593350
04/10/2017