This joint talk by Dr Clare Rishbeth and Dr Hala Ghanem will start with presenting #refugeeswelcome in parks: a project interweaving public space usage and sociocultural integration. Clare Rishbeth will show how the research team connected approaches with practical recommendations and case studies. The project, which was open to a wide range of ideas and initiatives supporting refugees’ access to parks, displayed examples from different cities across northern Europe. Moving from the international context to the local context of Amman, CBRL Research Project Grant Recipient Hala Ghanem will reflect on her project Enhancing everyday outdoor experiences of refugees in Jordan, which included a collaborative series of multi-level/actor workshops and outdoor interventions. The project intended to inform related practices on ways to maximise refugees’ usage of public open spaces, by involving refugees in participation and leadership for access to public spaces. Hala will present reflections of the collective processes of investigation, action and education that were reflected in sequential clusters of workshops between refugees and various partners.