The Academy focused on Oslo’s neighborhoods of Grønland and Tøyen as a starting point to analyze the larger circulatory processes taking place in and around Oslo and how these processes have affected definitions of contemporary spaces of residence. Located in central Oslo, the neighborhoods were originally populated by working families ad had characteristically precarious housing conditions.

In the last 30 years, they have developed into culturally diverse districts, with a large population of first and second generation migrants. Today, the areas continue to face social challenges and host high number of immigrants. With issues of migration and exile being at the forefront of the international political landscape today, our student interns got the chance to participate in current and global conversation about this year’s theme of ‘After Belonging’ the conditions, consequences and implications of life in exile, by doing analytical work and architectural visual representations on mor specific questions that fall within the forum’s theme such as ‘The Concept of Border’