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Home Ground Lab co-founders introduce their framework for beauty as essential infrastructure, drawing from both research and refugee-led practice. Alongside insights from UN-Habitat Afghanistan\u2019s post-conflict housing work and a time for Q&amp;A, the session brings together field evidence, lived experience, and emerging neuroscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants are invited to consider how the built environment can either deepen harm or support recovery. Together, we\u2019ll explore how beauty, too often dismissed as a luxury, may in fact be vital to restoring dignity and coherence in the aftermath of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/clarku.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_Q0ABOYzSQGGVPQr8uGQY4g#\/registration\">Register<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speakers: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dr. Devora Neumark<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and co-founder of Home Ground Lab. With over 30 years of leadership in academia, policy, and creative practice, they advance beauty as essential infrastructure in displacement contexts, combining participatory art, contemplative practice, and policy to promote climate justice, community resilience, dignity, and social innovation. <br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stephanie Acker,<\/strong> co-founder of Home Ground Lab, is a policy and communications practitioner whose work has centered on &#8216;home&#8217; and has held roles with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, UNICEF, and the European University Institute. She has a Master\u2019s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stephanie Loose<\/strong> is the Country Programme Manager\/Head of Office for UN-Habitat Afghanistan since October 2024. With over 25 years of professional experience in different countries, including in urban crisis and development settings, she strongly advocates for a humanitarian-development nexus. UN-Habitat has been implementing projects in Afghanistan for more than 30 years, applying people-centered, community-driven and area-based approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Respondent: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor Cathrine Brun<\/strong> is Deputy Director at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), an independent research institute located between Beirut, Lebanon and Cambridge, UK. 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