Mike Zuckerman Email & Phone Number

I create spaces and have designed everything from environmental nightclubs to a global network of [freespaces]. For the last 8 years I turned my focus to the global human migration crisis where I've been setting up alternatives to traditional refugee camps where the refugees themselves take a leading role in their design and implementation, flipping the traditional humanitarian model. As project manager for Elpida Home in 2016, I lead a team of volunteers, refugees and local Greek contractors to build a prototype camp that what was widely recognized as having the most dignified living conditions for refugees in all of Greece. Since Greece, I've continued responding to refugee situations along the U.S. / Mexico border, Ukraine / Poland border the protracted and crises that exist in Uganda and Bangladesh. Like many others, I believe that the current system of international aid is broken and we need to actively create many alternative prototypes... and fast. Refugee camps are the cities of the future where leapfrog urbanism is possible. In order for this vision to become a reality it will take all of us, refugees themselves and the general population, especially those who don't see themselves as traditional humanitarians. Together we will figure this out.

Listed skills include Sustainability, Sustainability Consulting, Leadership, Social Media, and 29 others.

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  Indiana University Bloomington

  Business