IN-HABIT partner Tesserae is organising a conference on “The city as a learning space” in Berlin in September and is requesting submissions for papers.

The UrbEXplorers conference is being held on the 28^th to 29^th of September 2023 in Berlin. This multidisciplinary symposium will discuss and promote urban exploration as a methodology for empowering young people, overcoming their vulnerabilities, and fostering their engagement in community life.

IN-HABIT partner Tesserae is one of the organisers of the conference and is currently calling for submissions to the event, with a deadline of the 15^th of May 2023. With the conference’s focus on the neighbourhood as a learning space, gaming and storytelling for education, and inclusion of vulnerable young people, paper proposals are welcomed that address topics such as:

• how to increase the capacities of young people to learn from the urban environment;
• spatial exploration as emancipatory practice;
• empowering local communities through youth participation;
• tools and methods for the engagement of young people;
• fighting segregation, school drop-out, and unemployment;
• design thinking approaches and co-creation;
• inclusion of migrants and refugees through urban exploratory practice;
• community narratives and storytelling.

For more information on the conference and the requirements for the submissions, read the full call for papers here.