The Giant Dolls’ House Project invites displaced children to share their experiences, hopes and aspirations through creating a room of their own in a shoebox.
Catja de Haas started the project in 2014 and has run workshops with London schoolchildren and community groups in Goa and Za’atari, the Jordanian camp that is home to around 80,000 Syrian refugees. Because dolls’ houses are so friendly, they are a really good way to get serious messages across,” says de Haas “You see all the little personal stories and it becomes clear that we are all human and idiosyncratically different. It really is an equaliser. Once you start making, you think with your fingers and you develop a narrative.”
The Giant Dolls’ House Project is a fund- and awareness raiser, and a discussion piece. It doesn’t solve anything, but hopefully it raises awareness.
The Giant Dollshouse project has had a number of exhibition to raise awareness including an Oxfam installation which was part of London Festival of Architecture 2020 and Refugee Week as well as The V&A Museum of Childhood.
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