Welcome to Daarna
Everyone deserves a home.
Who We Are
We are a diverse team of educators, thinkers, Architects, designers and activists who believe social equity and community base designs as solutions to end displacement.
We partner with refugees, local communities, and activists to provide needed resources that can empower refugees to create new homes.
Our Work
This Is Home
An info graphic style operation manual created in 2017 to provide refugees settling in urban cities the resources to ease their transition, integrate, and, very importantly, feel at home.
Ahlan
Our NEW mobile app based on our guide book “This Is Home”.
Color My Home
A community-based educational architectural design program which takes participants on a journey to trace, dream, and imagine their own personal concepts of home.
Meet The Founder
Rania Qawasma is a community architect in Seattle, Washington and focuses her work on social justice and equity. She designs affordable housing and sees it as her mission to help ensure all people have the right to a home, something that has been denied to countless Palestine refugees like herself. Whether in her local under-served neighborhoods in Washington state or towards her fellow displaced and under-served people elsewhere, she hopes her work as an architect will help people create a space that allows them to feel safe and secure.
Rania’s passion came from her fascination by the stories Palestinians create of their homes, streets, villages, and places they share. This sentiment has only been magnified given her family’s experience with displacement and their narrative around what home really looks like. Though Rania is now based in the Pacific Northwest, Palestine will always be her home.