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| Virtual Shelter |
| Midpoint Public Review |
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| the 'Virtual Shelter' online environment for refugees. |
| In a world of nation states, to be, for whatever reason, without a state, often means to be forgotten, or worse. For those who have always known the security and protection afforded by citizenship it is hard to Imagine the vulnerability and helplessness of the stateless person, the refugee. These are the brute facts behind the initiative in which a group of refugees will be working on a long term project with Imagine IC, Paradox, and the Amsterdam Tactical Media Lab (a team of developers, artists and other experts) to develop the website: the 'Virtual Shelter' online environment for refugees. We Imagine Virtual Shelter as a space in which refugees can both network together privately, access vital information and, on a more symbolic level, become a space for personal testimony, the commemoration of the past and the imagination of other futures. |
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