ABSTRACT
This chapter considers recent art and design that addresses refugee housing crises including: the global trend of eco-friendly “tiny homes” as new regimes of climate refugee containment in Santa Rosa de Yavarí, Peru; full-blown ecopolises in the Pacific; and contemporary visual art and farming practices of Southeast Asian refugee communities in Philadelphia, PA. The author argues that certain eco-design initiatives can unwittingly perpetuate settler colonial futures by effacing current and past relationalities between land, water, and people. This chapter weighs comparative geographies while asking why critical theorization around refugee futurity might draw from interdisciplinary methods.
