In 2018, the project "Community Space" took place in cooperation with the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (alba) – University of Balamand in Lebanon as part of the research focus "Foreign and Foreignness". Through the process of designing a "Community Space" for a refugee camp in Lebanon, the project investigated the topic area "foreignness". Students from Berlin and Beirut from artistically oriented fields of study used Design Thinking to explore how social spaces can be designed in situations of crisis. The research question was: How can the space in a refugee camp be designed in such a way, that it has an activating effect, so that foreignness can be processed and that creative and positive impulses arise among the residents and are transformed into action? The complex Design Thinking process, viewed from the students and a scientific perspective, as well as the concept for the design of the "Community Space" for the refugee camp are presented in this publication.