OFR co-authored a chapter on the spatial dimensions of climate migration for the Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice, tracing climate displacement from the US-Mexico border back to countries of origin most affected by ecological degration and extreme weather events. Written with Dr Irit Katz, the book was published by De Gruyter in 2024.

From fieldwork in both Guatemala and the border cities, the chapter sets out a method and a redefinition of the architect's role in such contexts. It traces displaced communities back to where they came from to understand the materials, construction techniques and social practices they carry with them, and to bring those into participatory design at the places of transit and arrival. The architect's role shifts accordingly, from master-builder to facilitator, researcher and coordinator who weaves together people, materials and organisations, treating construction as an open social process with no single author or fixed endpoint. It is an argument for decolonising authorship over the built environment, recognising the knowledge held by the people who build, inhabit and maintain it. 

Climate change is already redrawing cities and borders, yet the spatial side of climate migration has stayed largely outside architecture's remit, and the people displaced are usually planned for as recipients of standardised shelter. This chapter begins from their own agency as builders. It follows climate migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, in the El Paso and Ciudad Juárez borderplex, back to one of their largest points of origin: Guatemala's Petén and Dry Corridor, where drought, soil depletion, failing maize harvests and intensifying storms are pushing rural and Indigenous families to move, first internally and then north. Reading origin and destination as one connected geography, it shows that the people displaced carry generational skills in building and land care (adobe, cob, bamboo, weaving, thatch and rainwater harvesting, alongside the regenerative farming taught in informal farm-schools), and that they repair and rebuild their homes as acts of resilience. The architecture, agriculture and displacement usually studied apart are, in these lives, a single system.