URBEX NEWS
UrbEXplorers conference: Call for papers
Urbexplorers is the final conference of the Erasmus + project UrbEX. The multidisciplinary symposium will discuss and promote urban exploration as a methodology for empowering youths, overcoming their vulnerabilities and fostering their engagement in community life.
Making The City Tangible - Using Urban Spaces
In October 2022, several workshop days with young people on the theme of "Discovering the City'' took place in Berlin. The workshop series was planned and implemented with the two great local partner organisations S27 and StreetUniverCity from Berlin.
When The City Is a Laboratory
September came to an end with the urban exploration laboratories - in partnership with young people lead by youth workers from different organisations of three neighbourhoods in Lisbon. First at Biblioteca de Marvila, then atAssociação Futebol de Rua (Bairro Padre Cruz) and finally with Clube Intercultural Europeu (at Casa da Cultura da Picheleira) - these Local Labs_Lisboa sought to focus on the city around us.
Exchange Meeting In Palermo
Our first exchange meeting took place in Palermo between 7th and 11th of June 2022. Our whole team gathered in the urban unique environment there to share and test methods and exercises of urban exploration aimed at youths. The youth workers who came from Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Portugal also shared their experiences and good practice in an extremely valuable week of experiments, mapping, exploration and joy.