UrbEX Handbook of Urban Exploration for youths was created for youth workers, educators and civil servants who work with youths in (disadvantaged) urban contexts. With it, we aim to provide ideas and tools to employ spatial exploration methods with them.

The handbook has three main sections. The first one introduces the neighbourhood as a learning experience and challenges the negative connotations of the “street” as synonymous with the rough experience of struggle for life as the opposite of the favourable experience of scholarization and protected education. In this part, we are setting the context of the exploration model.

The second section presents the sequential steps to do Urban Exploration for youths. There we examine how and why to start a project of urban exploration with youths, how to do the communication of such a project, and how to respond to the five essential aims of urban exploration.

In the last part, we propose creative methods and tools that you can implement in your educational programmes. It indicates the main focus of the exercises but the facilitator is always welcome to adapt them.

The handbook is available in the following languages - you can download it for free below:

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