Za’ atari Action (Living together) is a project which has evolved out of the project ‘Dress For Our Time’, an artefact, which used a de commissioned UNHCR refugee tent to create a dress to engage the public with the Refugee crisis and Climate Change, at key moments of global and social significance.
The project sought to create a new opportunity to research into counter narratives for fashion’s use and for design to play an activist role.
In 2016, Helen visited Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan (where the tent originated) in her capacity as an academic and began, through conversation, to co create with the refugees, projects, which responded to their direct needs and which addressed educational, livelihood and enterprise creation opportunities, focusing on women and young girls at the camp.