Mark E Breeze, who teaches Dreaming Domesticity, Sheltering Speculations (EXP 17) has been awarded the prize for Best Research Film at the Research in Film Prize, run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Mark’s film, ‘Shelter without Shelter’, undertaken with Tom Scott-Smith, documents the experience of migrants travelling across Europe in search of shelter in the summer of 2015.

You can watch an excerpt from the film on the Shelter Without Shelter website, addressing the decisions made in providing housing for migrants in Berlin.

‘Thousands of forced migrants were arriving in the city every day and the city government responded by adapting large empty buildings into shelters. These included the old Nazi-era Tempelhof airport and a huge 1970s conference centre that had been abandoned for many years. The film explores what these spaces looked like, how they were adapted and the challenges of living inside them. As winter approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the world, Shelter without Shelter is more relevant than ever when looking at the role of architecture in designing refugee shelters.’

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