“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.

The city walk enabled participants to perceive values and potentials of their city through observation, exploration, and inquiry, which in turn prompts them to investigate, examine, and draw connections in an urban context. It formed a part of the project phase to create urban understanding and perception for the youths before the training phase. This activity was also open to the interested public.

Khon Kaen City Walk
January 21, 2022
 
For the ‘Khon Kaen City Walk - the Hidden Town Tour’, a speaker from Baan Home Saen Suk introduced the youth participants to the background, problems, and processes of helping homeless people, as well as to urban communities along the railway affected by urban development.

Chiang Mai City Walk
January 21, 2022
 
The highlight of this City Walk was to discover the beauty of Chiang Mai City, including temples and architecture in the old town and beyond, which could be said to have put Chiang Mai on the top among Thailand’s tourist destinations. On the route, the participants were introduced to the often-overlooked neighborhood opposite the city. Tucked within the old city wall community and Klong Mae Kha community lie crowded communities or slums of the urban poor. In addition, the path led through the Wua Lai community, where artists from ten villages of Xishuangbanna were recruited to live in. After a tram ride, the speaker brought the participants to visit Baan Tuamfan, a center for homeless people, to learn about the work to support homeless urban dwellers, followed by a visit to a slum in Kamphaeng Din area.

Bangkok City Walk
January 22, 2022
 
‘Bangkok City Walk - An Intimate Stroll in Bang Lamphu’ reflected artistic, social, and cultural values of Bang Lamphu neighborhood through a path where the participants could experience the community and its people in an intimate way. Bang Lamphu is full of stories linking past to present and revealing directions for the future that are driven by the devotion and spirit of the Kaysorn Lumpoo Club and the Bang Lumphu Civic Net. Both exemplify a strong force to improve one’s own neighborhood, city, and society that will inspire the new generation to follow suit.

Hat Yai City Walk
January 22, 2022
 
 ‘Hat Yai City Walk - An Evening Stroll: From Public Space to an Opportunity to Build a City of Gastronomy’ provided a learning space to learn - and rediscover - on a route combining public spaces, people, urban landscape, and culture, designed based on an important concept of value recognition, diversity, and sense of ownership among Hat Yai citizens. The process emerged from the activity also resulted in a reinvention of the meaning of spatial use to be centered around learning. By looking at “Urban Space as a Learning Space”, an educative ecosystem could be established and nurtured.

Kanchanaburi City Walk
January 23, 2022
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The Kanchanaburi City Walk started from the paper factory, an important historical site and linkage between past and present. This walk entailed a historical study to understand the city’s structure with an ultimate aim to further urban development. Key learning points included the role of the city walls, obstacles to urban development, the origin of the paper factory, and modern knowledge, machinery, technology, and city in the modern era.