Refugees, architecture and comics

Architecture student Johanna Regger's master thesis deals with the flight routes of young Syrians. She created a touching graphic model from the stories young refugees shared with her. What makes the graphic novel "In Mind" so interesting is its two-level context - i.e. the level of architecture and the level of the escape - that makes sense through the artistic form of the comic. The novel tells of our environment and the perspective from which we perceive it. This may sound simple, but in the beginning it was quite a challenge to map out the task. The starting point for the project was finding a story worth telling that I could present in the style of a comic. I wanted the plot to be longer than just a few pages, and I was aiming for a profound content and logical story line.