WP2 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN AND ACROSS INSTITUTIONAL SPACES

Leader: Cathrine Grimsgaard; Co-leader: Anna Chalachanova
Researchers: Elisabeth Fransson, Mari Herland, Anita Gjermestad, and Siri Bakken

WP2 explores how ICCs affect children and young people’s lives. Inspired by the concept of carceral spaces,
borders and design (Moran, 2015; Moran et al. 2023; Turner, 2016), WP2 will investigate a spectrum of
institutional settings with varying degrees of confinement: child welfare facilities, respite homes and juvenile
correctional institutions. The focus is to understand ICC spaces as sites of dwelling (Heidegger, 1971). To
analye sites of dwelling WP2 will explore the inter-face between the built environment and children's/young
people's lived experiences: how the physical environment influences how bodies move, change and
experience care and control. This knowledge will inform the design of institutional environments that are
more suited to communication, relationships, milieu work and milieu therapy. Together with children and
young people WP2 will study silence, opposition and running away as meaningful forms of agency, bringing
in material and non-human resources and considering children in context and in relationships with other
people.