Arriving at a new place, the stranger finds herself/himself facing the unfamiliar. In that situation, she/he is confronted with different tasks, duties and other difficulties in order to handle one own needs and desires such as settling down and creating oneself a home. This thesis aims to explore processes of arriving as well as its interrelation to concepts of hospitality. How does hospitality as a welcoming method facilitate and support the arriving stranger? The first part of the thesis focuses on general aspects of hospitality and its exploration. In order to approach, understand and narrow down the wide and extensive topic, a series of literature is considered and simultaneously connected to the context of my own experience and background as a newly-arrived international student. Therefore, subjective examples, in which I am hosted in and around Umeå, by different people or institutions and during the last 2 years, are investigated. Subsequently this thesis considers existing organizations and networks in Umeå, which operate with a welcoming approach within the realm of integration, cultural exchange, and social relations. It becomes apparent, that spaces and moments of familiarity are significant not just as a starting point for strangers to meet, bringing together differences and similarities especially through communalities such as food, music and dance, but also to provide structures for legal and further support. As a generous act, providing hospitality has the potential for facilitating needs of newly arrived people, enabling exchange and encounter to happen. It has the ability to become a tool for coexistence. Eventually, with concepts of hospitality, sharing and communality in mind, the proposal brings together existing organizations, forming a meeting point for new and already established inhabitants of Umeå in the town center.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-138795 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Drechsler, Mirjam |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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