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EXPLORING YOUTH AND BELONGING IN THE CITY - ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
March 6th 2015, 9.30am-6pm
The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP
Cities globally are undergoinging rapid transformation as well as being sites of complex politics, diversity and inequality. This workshop aims to better understand how young people experience these realities and what would enable them to have a greater stake in their neighbourhoods. It brings together researchers and practitioners to engage in discussion in three key areas:
1. youth, belonging and urban change;
2. participatory and visual methods;
3. and intersections between the practices of research and youth work.
Prof Peter Kraftl (Leicester) will be presenting a keynote talk on future directions for youth geographies, and panellists will include: Adefemi Adekunle (Newman), Matej Blazek (Loughborough), Alicia Blum-Ross (LSE), Melissa Butcher (OU), Jo Carter (Immediate Theatre), Luke Dickens (OU), Helen Lomax (Northampton), Paul Watt (Birkbeck).
The workshop is free but places are limited. To register please email Jan Smith: [log in to unmask]
This event marks the completion of the ESRC-funded ‘Creating Hackney as Home’ project (2013-15, Open University), using participatory visual methods to explore young people’s sense of home and belonging in a rapidly transforming London borough.
To find out more about the project see: www.hackneyashome.co.uk
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