The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York plans to examine how artists and architects are confronting the global refugee crisis in the exhibition Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter (1 October-22 January). The show pairs art by Estudio Teddy Cruz, Henk Wildschut and Tiffany Chung with design objects such as the modular emergency shelter co-designed by the Ikea Foundation and the UN Refugee Agency. MoMA’s director Glenn Lowry asked Sean Anderson, an associate curator of architecture and design, to tackle the issue soon after he started at the museum in December. “My take on it was that architecture can’t resolve this crisis, it can only respond to it,” Anderson says. “Do we make buildings for people or do people make buildings?”