Where strangers become neighbours : design for diversity - a case study utilising a physical and social framework of a reception centre for asylum seekers

Abstract

This project is going to look at how the built environment, in this case a public space, can improve the well-being for people in a reception centre for asylum seekers and refugees. The project is going to talk about the life in reception centres and how we better can plan for the diversity of people who live there. If integration can be introduced in an early stage of the asylum seekers arrival, then it will also be easier for asulum seeker, to prepare for integration if they have the opportunity to stay in Norway.