When Irish architect Gráinne Hassett first arrived in the Calais refugee camp known as the Jungle in August 2015, she was greeted with a post-apocalyptic scene. The several thousand-strong population of the camp was sharing just four cold-water standing pipes and 30 toilets between them, which hadn’t been cleaned for months. There were no paved roads, no food distribution and no formalised provision of shelter. Yet, despite the misery, she was struck by what she saw – a prototype city in the making.....Continue Reading

Top image: Camp congregations … the Ethiopian church. Image © David Levene/Guardian

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