Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru

Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific.

Jennifer Ferng is Senior Lecturer and B.DesArch (honours) M.Arch Program Director at the University of Sydney. Her research examines environmental and humanitarian histories across Europe, Asia, and Oceania focusing on climate change, sustainability, forced displacement, and migrations. She has co-edited three books namely Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (Liverpool / Voltaire Foundation, 2021), Drawing Climate: Visualising Invisible Elements of Architecture (Birkhauser, 2021), and Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era (Brill, 2023). Her recent publications and works include a special issue of Future Anterior on decarbonization of heritage buildings in the Asia Pacific and a design exhibition entitled ＂Monumental Imaginaries: Complexity and Contraction in the Hunter Region＂ (2024) sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) and University of Edinburgh.