Activities
In this section, we introduce some of the activities that took place within ReThink Urban Spaces from 2021 to 2023, including workshops, forums, walking tours, and study trips.
Online Orientation Workshop
An Online Orientation Workshop from August 27 to 29, gathered 80 young people from Bangkok, Hat Yai, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Kanchanaburi who have been selected to join the project. Members of the facilitated the relationship and team building part and RTUS experts, as well as local partners giving inputs about youth participation in urban development and urban development perspectives in Thailand.
More informationRTUS Knowledge Market Pop-Up Sessions
The orientation workshop during August 27-29 allowed youths from five cities to meet and get to know the project. One of them asked for urban knowledge, therefore, we invited an expert in different issues to do a class for RTUS youths on the Saturday afternoon of October 9 and 16, 2021. They could select to join any classes that interested them.
More InformationFoundation Workshop
The Foundation Workshop (online) on November 6 and 7, 2021, laid the basis for the Incubation Workshops in 2022, where the Youth-Led Projects will be developed. The second part of the workshop aimed to strengthen participants’ skills for their project planning and implementation by proposing a panel of tools.
Foundation WorkshopRTUS City Walks
“RTUS City Walk” was an active learning activity that promotes life-long learning, offers first hand experiences, and develops participants’ capacity through a learner-centered approach The activity aimed to establish access to new knowledge, perception, and collective consciousness.
More informationIncubation Workshops
From February 25 to 27, 2022, the first Incubation Workshop took place in Bangkok with 40 youth participants (18 male, 22 female) and 17 mentors from various fields. Due to pandemic restrictions throughout 2021, the workshop was the first opportunity for the youths from different cities to meet in person.
Incubation WorkshopsEuropean Youth Capital Study Trip
A study trip was held in 2022 visiting four cities in the European Union, including Berlin (Germany), and the European Youth Capital cities of Klaipeda (Lithuania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Thessaloniki (Greece) and was designed in cooperation with the European Youth Forum and European Youth Capital to emphasize discussion and interrelation between Thai and EU youths and learn from each other’s experiences in strengthening youth participation in urban issues.
More informationReThink Urban Spaces Youth Festival
The youth festivals in each of the five participating Thai cities were designed as a public space for young people to share their vision of an inclusive urban development approach and to connect with the wider local community.
More informationEU-Thai Urban
Youth Forum
The project culminated with the EU-Thai Urban Youth Forum at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. The forum provided an opportunity to learn first-hand from the youths about their initiatives and campaigns throughout the project, as well as about the European Youth Capital approach to creating spaces for youth participation.
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