Rich people come away from his lectures on housing the homeless with thoughts of getting Ban to design them refugee-style guesthouses or meditation huts.
On the other hand, there are many more subjects where visibility = 0.1 and importance = 9; for example, just to pick one from yesterday's lineup, the one hundred thousand Tamil civilians who are currently trapped in an internment-style refugee encampment in northeastern Sri Lanka, with the Tamil Tigers cornered and desperate terrorist leadership in their midst.
Refugee Weekend (and a similar-style program, called Poverty Immersion) were both born from Cook's unusual style of teaching, which eschewed traditional textbook study for hands-on learning.
Along the way they meet a giant Sudanese refugee, an executive for a Walmart-style superstore, his poster-girl paramour and a sombre fireman obsessed with America's dependency on oil.
Fosso arrived at his signature style, while a teenage refugee living in Bangui, the remote capital of the Central African Republic.
The new record lands on weightier subjects like the Syrian refugee crisis while other tunes process Tuareg-style playing through her fuzzy, electric style.
Austria, which initially followed Germany by responding compassionately to refugees, now stands with Hungary in calling for an Australian-style solution to the refugee crisis.
Meanwhile, the companies, charities and teams based at Second Home across various sites include energy upstart Bulb (which employs 280 people located at Spitalfields), Threads Styling, Help Refugees, Kickstarter, TaskRabbit, Vice Media, Spotify, Volkswagen, Taylor Wessing, Ermenegildo Zegna and others.
The creaky elevator doors open to a refugee swarm of furniture, china, carpets, mirrors, periods, fabrics, styles.
He had ridden the rails hobo-style after graduating from college, and worked in a Bosnian refugee camp; she had traveled alone to Morocco, Eastern Europe, India and Berlin.
The other members of the seven-person cast, all terrific, are scattered around the studio, dressed in the ragtag style that musicians often sport in designers' imaginations: they look like refugees from "Godspell".
