Installation view: three black panels of framed photographs on the white walls of a room

(In)Hospitalité en territoire d’accueil

(In)Hospitality in a Host Territory

2024–2026

DNSEP in Design, Creation and Territorial Projects, ésam Caen/Cherbourg — jury commendation

Diploma project, DNSEP
Thesis and territorial project
Interactive map, resource kit, fact sheets

My final DNSEP project, part written thesis and part design project, (In)hospitalité en territoire d’accueil (“(In)Hospitality in Host Territories”), examined how the geography of host territories shapes LGBTQ+ asylum claims in France, where asylum seekers have no choice over which reception centre or city they are assigned to.

Drawing on two years of fieldwork, including interviews with lawyers, psychologists, a former national asylum court judge, and an LGBTQI+ centre director, as well as weekly outreach sessions, workshops, and interviews with asylum seekers themselves, I produced an interactive map translating distances and waiting times into concrete costs (financial, cognitive, temporal), alongside a practical resource kit and twenty fact sheets for LGBT centres not yet engaged with this issue. The project received jury commendation.

Installation view: an interactive map projected on the wall, a panel of photographs and a booklet open on a plinth — (In)Hospitalité en territoire d’accueil, DNSEP exhibition, 2026

The interactive map projected on the wall of a darkened room

A panel of photographs on the wall and, in front, a booklet open on a white plinth

Black panel with two framed photographs of handwritten cardboard placards, one reading “Je ne cherche pas un privilège, je veux vivre mon homosexualité librement sans peur”

Black panel with two framed photographs of handwritten cardboard placards, one reading “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame or compromise”

Four red-covered booklets, each with a window onto the photograph of a placard, on black

“Welcome!” and “Bienvenue !” booklets and cards for the Centre LGBTI de Normandie, on black

A red booklet open on black, with a photograph of a placard on each page

The resource kit for the Centre LGBTI de Normandie laid out on black: “Welcome!” and “Bienvenue !” booklets, cards and fact sheets

Fieldwork documents laid out on black: handwritten notes, printed sheets, association brochures and leaflets

Red booklets, the thesis and reference books laid out on black

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