Reclaiming Physical and Virtual Spaces

While the globalized market takes an increasingly larger share of the public awareness by providing a manufactured, impersonal, generic 'consumable' culture, youth groups and individuals find more difficulty accessing public space and exploring personal diversities.

This project aims to prevent youth becoming merely subjects to social, political and economic differences, instead becoming creators and developers of culture, gaining experiences and knowledge to confidently assertobjective viewpoints and suggest tangible solutions. Concretely, this will mean volunteers taking an active role in the activities of organizations that provide forms of space for youth discourse and visibility.

The project is intended to be a way to provide youth with a self-organized, self-maintained platform to develop ideas and opinions on social and political events, and encourage them to claim the public space to convey them. The project is not only a cross-border exchange of different cultural and demographic backgrounds, but a skill-sharing exchange of varying methods of communication of ideas; specifically open space internet forums, artistic exhibitions, social events, political involvements and discursive meetings.

Volunteers selected for project are from Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Slovenia, and will work on the project from March 2009-2010.