This handbook is the first project resulting of the Erasmus+ UrbEX. It aims at outlining a methodology of urban exploration as a means of engagement for young people in vulnerable contexts.
handbook · urban education · urban exploration · urban reconnaissance · urbex · youths
How to increase the capacity of youths to learn from their urban environment?
How can spatial exploration be used as an emancipatory practice?
How may exploratory practice assist in counteracting segregation, school dropout, and unemployment?
How can such practices support the inclusion of young migrants and refugees?
To answer such questions, the UrbEXplorerrs conference adopted a practice-oriented, multidisciplinary and inclusive approach facilitating exchange about concrete experiences and open tools among the participants.
Berlin · conference · urban exploration · urbex · youths
This tool was developed during the URBEX training program on Urban exploration as a tool for the engagement of youths at risk of exclusion. It describes a number of approaches and methods to guide and inspire youth workers that aim to explore their neighbourhoods and socio-spatial contexts with the company of a youth group.
gaming · social inclusion · toolkit · tools · training · urban education · urban reconnaissance · urbex · youths
UrbEX is an Erasmus plus project aimed at developing urban exploration as tool to engage and empower youths at risk of exclusion. Tesserae is lead partner and coordinator in the project, managing the partnership between five organisations in five different EU countries.
We are delivering the URBEX handbook of Urban Exploration and testing the handbook’s methodologies in Berlin within local labs. Finally in September 2023 we will also be organising the project’s final international conference.
Influences from bordering neighborhoods and recent intervention are slowly changing its features. Through collaboration with local partner 4change, Tesserae is involved in several projects that have their research focus here, namely URBEX and COMENSI. WHERE AND WHEN? Bairro Da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal. From 2018. WHAT’S GOING ON? The BairroAjuda is one of the 25 local municipalities/parishes that constitute […]
bairro da ajuda · comensi · Lisbon · urbex
