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Scenario 1:

Hotel

This scenario is inspired by Magdas In this booklet’s scenario, the staff
Hotel in Vienna, a hotel and temporary (documented newcomers) is also housed
refugee accommodation. It functions in the hotel, and spaces are created
as a social business where refugees can where informal exchange can happen

start their working career, learning between staff and guests. The bar of the
the language as they go. Hotel Magdas hotel is also open for inhabitants of the
itself was inspired by Grandhotel neighborhood and other visitors who
Cosmopolis, also a temporary refugee happen to be in the area. The garden is
accommodation and hotel, combined designed like a pocket park (cf. Paley
with open workspaces, art studios and Park in Manhattan). Signs outside
public services. indicate the presence of the bar.
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Signs outside the BOOST centre for
refugees in Amsterdam indicate
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welcomeness

Grandhotel Cosmopolis in Augsburg, Germany,
looked for ways “in which extremely diverse groups
can live together peacefully in a relatively densely
populated space”
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