Home.Work is a mobile toolbox that enables people to make a home a home, when they need it most. Designed with the needs of people living in isolated refugee camps in Greece in mind, Home.Work transforms from a toolbox to a home workstation in a matter of minutes. The box includes all the tools needed to repair and build stuff, and create a garden, too.
Home.Work was built and piloted with the community in Katsikas Refugee Camp, which is a new but barren home to nearly 1,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Congo and many other places. Inspired by the Habibi.Works humanitarian fab lab, this simple idea helps re-engage talented and motivated makers who, because of circumstances beyond their control, are now refugees.
Greece is a new home to nearly 70,000 refugees and asylum seekers. Many of them live in container camps, where they will have to stay until they are granted asylum, a process which can take many years. They have limited access to educational, cultural or recreational activities, and spend most of their days sitting in their containers. A space’s design can have a huge effect on a person’s mental well-being, so enabling people to create a home in this new space is a psychosocial intervention and a tool for independence.
Mobile, multi-functional and low-cost, Home.Work is a product that can easily be deployed to contexts of displacement and marginalization, to give agency to affected communities.
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MAKING A HOME A HOME WHEN PEOPLE NEED IT MOST !!!
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WHAT ARE WE DOING ...
We created a box, which is handy but big enough to hold garden tools. It is filled with tool donations, and contains all tools necessary to maintain a house or garden and even do repair work and extensions. The box was built with the Katsikas community members and will then be taken to different camps by members of the community. This way, we will build trust, make connections and demonstrate how people can take their destiny into their own hands through the creation of their three dimensional surroundings.
...CREATING the RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCE for SELFEMPOWERMENT.
Committees of responsible people will be formed, and have signed an agreement to ensure the tool box is shared and people help each other, in order to reject all forms of exclusivity.
The communal work and mutual support then began!
We stay in contact with the users, who can reach us 24/7 in case of questions or feedback. In addition, we visit them from time to time.
THIS IS WHY WE ARE DOING IT!
IMPACT
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Creating our three-dimensional environment is a human need, which should be a right for every person.
Being able to create something demonstrates a person’s ability to change and alter something, and to be self-determinatory. This contributes to integration and to aworthy active, productive life, in a context of continuous frustration and endless waiting.
Additionally, the access to tools makes an economic difference and addresses primary needs. People who are forced to live in refugee camps in Greece don’t want help. They want to be able and empowered to help themselves.
People build the boxes, at Habibi.Works. Therefore, the users are included in the entire process. In Home.Work, it is the communities that benefit from the very beginning until the end. We enable people to help themselves and others around them.
UNIQUE APPROACH
In a pre defined distribution system we let people design their own way on how to help their community threw crafts.
They decide on keyaspects of the system.
Therefore we earase every dependency on Home.Work as a project and people can empower them self selfdeterminated.
THE BOX
The box is light, and quick and easy to set up and take down.
It is made of wood, is 200cm tall, 70cm long and 10cm wide and is filled with tools. It can take on two forms. In the first form, the box functions as a portable storage space for all the tools someone owns. In the second form, it functions as an indispensable working space, which also accommodates all the tools. Additionally, it offers a 100cm by 70cm working space. The entire construction is stabilized by a simple beam construction. All parts of the box have a function in its folded form, as well as in its opened form. Therefore, and through the choice of material, the box is cost-efficient, to maximize its output.
The inside of the box is designed so that the tools are held within it.
SETTING UP THE BOX !
DONATE A BOX
The cost of one box is €90 without tools, and €250 with all tools included.
Please don’t forget to add “Home.Work” behind your name.
"Creating our three dimensional surroundings makes us human. Therefore, being able to do this is a human right!"
THE PATTERN
The challenge was, how to accommodate all the tools.
The inside of the box contains a pattern of 260 circular holes, each with a radius of around 30mm, and a depth of 10mm. This pattern of circular holes is filled with round sticks exactly where they are necessary to accommodate and secure different items. The round sticks are hammered into the holes so they are stuck, but easy to remove. This is the same procedure used to build a wooden house. The holes of the table plate are just 5mm deep and function to fix the plate. The pattern is designed so no tool can fall out, and also enables the insertion of boxes. This way, even the tiniest screwdriver has a place.
MULTI PURPOSE
creating fixing maintaining
THE TRAININGS
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MAKING PEOPLE TO AMBASSADORS
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CREATING COMMUNITY
This process is the main goal of Habibi.Works and Home.Work. Integration is only possible if people’s situation enables their self-fulfillment.
By passing on the boxes, and the layout of the subsequent process to a group of owners, the creation of communities is stimulated and ostracism is eliminated.
In addition, the process of building together and of helping and supporting each other to reach their end goals collectively, further promotes integration.
This is visible in all maker communities around the world, especially in the intercultural maker space Habibi.Works
REACHING AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY
Threw the sharing system, we make it possible to reach out to an entire community, with just a couple of Boxes. Five Ambassadors take ownership over one box and giving acces to the box to many more.
MANUFACT URING
/ MAKING OF
The entire process, from the first idea-gathering sessions to the delivery of the boxes, happened and is happening in constant collaboration with members of the community which lives next to Habibi.Works, and its other users. It was because of this that the box was equipped with gardening tools, at the request of one user, and this was how the first prototypes were collectively-conceived, built and tried.
The box was tested and inspected by the users in the wood workshop of Habibi.Works. Everything happened via mutual exchange.
This was also the way, the necessary precision during the fabrication process using the CNC – the machine on which the users make the box – was set up with the community.
Everyone with whom I have worked together during his process are seen by Habibi.Works as educated and certified makers. Now, with Home.Work, they turn others into makers and improve their own skills further.
HOME
Quality of life actually begins at home – it’s in your street, around your community.
INTERVIEW with HOME.WORK and HABIBI.WORKS
My name is Thomas Jäger and I am a product design student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. In our society, products currently have immense meaning and impact. Well-designed and thought through products can directly influence the living conditions of many people.
This is why I have decided to apply my abilities and knowledge to something more meaningful than, for example, testing thousands of Hi-Fi-constructions on their radius. I want to change the living conditions of those who need it most, using the power of well-designed and thought through products!
This is how I came to work with Habibi.Works, which I have been part of, on site, for more than a year. I remember how fascinated I was at first by the impact of this project. I quickly became friendly with many of the people who came to the project, and as a result, understood the importance and necessity of access to tools – which up to this point only Habibi.Works provided – in this context. I also noticed during my stay the importance, yet lack of, mobility available to people. Many only have access to places where specific work and employment opportunities are offered during specific opening hours.
This is good, but what happens, for example, if a screwdriver is needed Sunday night in a distant camp, to provide light for children to do their homework?
THE STORY
MAKING OF ...
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