Incubation 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.
The Incubation Workshop series were the capacity development measures within the project and aimed to support the development and implementation of youth-led projects, facilitate community building of the youth groups in the respective cities and to find common approaches to strengthening the network of youths in the field of urban development and policy in the participating cities.
In this first workshop, participants had the opportunity to share their project ideas with their peers from the five cities and receive consultation from the project mentors. In addition to developing their ideas from concept to action plan, they also worked on structurally organizing their youth community and how their projects relate to one another within the respective city campaigns.
After the workshop, the participants had two weeks to finalize their project plans and submit their final proposal to the central project team before officially starting to implement their urban youth projects throughout 2022 with financial support from EU-project funds and the Inclusive Cities campaign of the Child and Youth Media Foundation.
Throughout May and June 2022, mini-workshops were held in each city to follow up on the planning and implementation of youth-led projects and to start preparation of the ReThink Urban Spaces Youth Festival planned in each city for November-December 2022. The youths received further guidance and input from a group of mentors from various fields of expertise, such as campaigning, urban design, policy making, project management and communication. Further online sessions took place online in September 2022 to jointly evaluate the youth-led projects and their impact and challenges with participants from all five cities and tackle final preparations for the RTUS Youth Festival.
The capacity building measure aimed to empower youths who are the project implementers in each region, through mutual exchange and a peer-learning processes, as well as through guidance from external experts. The workshops supported finding creative solutions for youths in each city in rethinking urban spaces and to strengthen the network of youths active in urban development.
Workshop on Participatory Learning Design to Enhance Youth Engagement in Urban Development
March 30, 2023
Together with UDDC, the Urban Design and Development Center of Chulalongkorn University, and experts in urban and regional planning from the Technical University of Berlin, a workshop on “Participatory Learning Design to Enhance Youth Engagement in Urban Development” was organized on 30 March, 2023. Twenty-five participants from various fields of architecture, business, social development and design, joined this unique session where Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Million and Dr.-Ing. Anna Juliane Heinrich presented a bouquet of methods for successful participation through play. Role playing, for example, can open new ways to involve children and young people in the design of urban spaces. The participants leant about the five steps of participation concept “See & Explore, Envision, Design, Present, and Change” and how participatory urban planning and design can be effective through the use of games. The second part of the workshop focused on game design and testing where participants got the opportunity to try out games designed by the German experts.
The Incubation Workshop series were the capacity development measures within the project and aimed to support the development and implementation of youth-led projects, facilitate community building of the youth groups in the respective cities and to find common approaches to strengthening the network of youths in the field of urban development and policy in the participating cities.
In this first workshop, participants had the opportunity to share their project ideas with their peers from the five cities and receive consultation from the project mentors. In addition to developing their ideas from concept to action plan, they also worked on structurally organizing their youth community and how their projects relate to one another within the respective city campaigns.
After the workshop, the participants had two weeks to finalize their project plans and submit their final proposal to the central project team before officially starting to implement their urban youth projects throughout 2022 with financial support from EU-project funds and the Inclusive Cities campaign of the Child and Youth Media Foundation.
Throughout May and June 2022, mini-workshops were held in each city to follow up on the planning and implementation of youth-led projects and to start preparation of the ReThink Urban Spaces Youth Festival planned in each city for November-December 2022. The youths received further guidance and input from a group of mentors from various fields of expertise, such as campaigning, urban design, policy making, project management and communication. Further online sessions took place online in September 2022 to jointly evaluate the youth-led projects and their impact and challenges with participants from all five cities and tackle final preparations for the RTUS Youth Festival.
The capacity building measure aimed to empower youths who are the project implementers in each region, through mutual exchange and a peer-learning processes, as well as through guidance from external experts. The workshops supported finding creative solutions for youths in each city in rethinking urban spaces and to strengthen the network of youths active in urban development.
Workshop on Participatory Learning Design to Enhance Youth Engagement in Urban Development
March 30, 2023
Together with UDDC, the Urban Design and Development Center of Chulalongkorn University, and experts in urban and regional planning from the Technical University of Berlin, a workshop on “Participatory Learning Design to Enhance Youth Engagement in Urban Development” was organized on 30 March, 2023. Twenty-five participants from various fields of architecture, business, social development and design, joined this unique session where Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Million and Dr.-Ing. Anna Juliane Heinrich presented a bouquet of methods for successful participation through play. Role playing, for example, can open new ways to involve children and young people in the design of urban spaces. The participants leant about the five steps of participation concept “See & Explore, Envision, Design, Present, and Change” and how participatory urban planning and design can be effective through the use of games. The second part of the workshop focused on game design and testing where participants got the opportunity to try out games designed by the German experts.
