2024-05-04T15:46:03-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149968394/ruimteveldwerk-maps-modes-of-movement-for-asylum-seekers-in-oslo Nicholas Korody 2016-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/na/na2rph3wja8jqzd1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thelocal.no/20160107/norway-expects-up-to-60000-asylum-seekers-in-2016" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">estimates</a>&nbsp;by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, up to 60,000 people will seek asylum in Norway this year alone, most of them from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these newly-arrived people have little knowledge of where to go to find basic resources, not to mention where to make friends.&nbsp;How do you spread information among a constantly changing group of people who don&rsquo;t have either the visibility or the vocality of the rest of a city&rsquo;s population?</p><p>For <em>Modes of Movement, </em>one of the 2016 Oslo Triennale commissioned &lsquo;intervention strategies&rsquo;, the Belgian collective <a href="http://ruimteveldwerk.be/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ruimteveldwerk</a> met with asylum seekers in Oslo to gather information and anecdotes about places they found useful or appealing. They then converted their findings into a city guide, which delineates fundamental resources like medical centers and shelters, alongside places where asylum seekers can simply meet one another and share stories and experiences.</p><p>Like the rest of the intervention strategies in ...</p>