Project Unsung

The UN Refugee Agency’s Project Unsung is a speculative storytelling project that brings together creative collaborators from around the world to help reimagine the humanitarian sector and promote narrative change and foresight in our work.

The worlds produced through mediums such as non-fiction essays, science fiction, poetry, art and illustration, create visions for how we might radically reimagine our work with communities, our organizations, and our relationships to each other and the planet.

The collection is framed across three overarching issues that we believe to be critical for building just futures:

• Nature (restoring and repairing the world by confronting climate change and ecological loss);
• Identity (fostering belonging, connection, and kinship);
• Power (reimaging and reconfiguring power dynamics and social transformation through decolonizing, localizing, and building solidarity across difference).

The story of humanitarian innovation needs a new chapter. Join us in imagining better worlds.