SHAPE: Shelter-based Hubs for Adaptive Partnerships and Engagement

Description

Shelter spaces as social and digital infrastructure for learning and working in times of crisis

The SHAPE reimagines adaptive collaboration spaces for living, working, and learning in response to military conflict and its long-term impact on organizations and communities. These spaces are defined by the integration of physical shelters (such as bunkers), digital technologies – including AI-enabled communication and decision-support tools – and a human-centric approach that promotes psychological safety, inclusion, and coordinated action under stress.

Achieving this aim requires strategic cross-sector partnerships involving public, private, and civil society actors, built on trust, shared purpose, and intercultural competence. Drawing on frontline insights from the Ukrainian context, the project investigates how people collaborate across boundaries and how adaptive capacity is embedded in organizational and spatial design. It further explores the potential of AI to support collective sensemaking and decision-making in high-stakes environments.