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Climb up wherever you are. Your path is like a scrapbook, a handful of pages to revisit, decisions made, inadvertent high scores and lucky mistakes. What factors have brought you to where you are?

Orbital Logbooks allows you to browse through a collage of impressions that ten professionals from the field of education have collected over the course of a year in their field journals.

The journey is an infinite, circular itinerary, which we encourage you to follow as you like so that you lose yourself in the different stages that make up the landscape of empowerment.

Orbital logbooks
Empowerment is a continuous, infinite journey. The circle you will see next aims to be its representation. In it are situated, in the form of coloured circumferences, the different stages of the empowerment process that ten professionals in the field of education have defined with their thoughts and reflections. By selecting them, you will be able to see what stage they refer to and you will discover the materials made to describe it.

The different colours correspond to three types of resources:
The green circumferences contain pages from field journals.
The orange ones, audio-visual pieces on specific topics, recorded by the educators themselves.
The yellow ones contain fragments of four focus groups where participants shared experiences.

Through these materials, you will be able to delve into the meaning of a term as abstract and multifaceted as that of youth empowerment; circulating through its stages, from prior reflection to the evaluation of the results obtained.

In the menu on the top right, you can learn more about the project and also access an archive of the materials, where you can filter them by specific concepts and interests.
This page has been elaborated following the recommendations of the use of non-sexist language. Therefore, as far as possible, we have used generic expressions that include gender diversity.
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“We’re Carme, David and Matilde. We’re part of Teleduca education and communication, an interdisciplinary team of professionals specialized in educommunication in community dynamization in Barcelona. Our work focuses on favouring situations of self-expression and meeting places, where young people take a leading role in participatory audio-visual creation processes.

We provide socio-educational and cultural support to young people of all ages and in very different situations. We act in formal and non-formal educational contexts and informal ones, and we even aim at recombining them. We encourage dialogue and the interrelation of young people with neighbours: the elderly, women's groups, local organizations, always with the idea of bringing the community together, addressing the feeling of belonging and establishing links with the immediate environment.”

April 6th, 2019

 

The ERD (In the Search for Development by its acronym in Catalan) is an advisory project for high school research projects promoted by Escola Lluire El Sol and the Assemblea de Cooperació per la Pau (Cooperation for Peace Assembly). In Teleduca we had the task of accompanying and helping the students draw up an audiovisual map on leisure and/or social entities that were run by young people in the district of Ciutat Vella. 

Starting from the dynamic of sharing their previous ideas and concerns, we discovered that they had the initial impression that there were difficulties in the district for the self-management of

projects for young people, and that there was little public space and few spaces in which young people could carry out activities. They mainly thought that the entities would not be representative of all of the youth in the neighbourhood.

One of their main concerns was coming up with how to reach young people who, whether for economic, cultural, religious reasons, etc., do not come into these spaces, and how to break the stigma.

 Due to the interest shown by the female students when researching these aspects, which at first went beyond the idea of the mapping of entities proposed initially, we decided to look for a way in which this information could be present in the maps. For this reason, we suggested they produce chronicles of each visit, where they could reflect in

greater depth and from their own point of view everything they had researched about the entity.

We believe that this decision was very wise and encouraged the empowerment of these young women, because they were able to carry out the research according to their interests and allowed them to generate connections with similar entities and people. Once the project was finished, and after listening to the young people present the cartography made in public, we can say that the participants went from having many doubts about the project to making it their own, working in groups and getting actively involved in each and every one of the steps.

The challenge of using geolocation and audiovisuals as their main tools was

easily accepted. The girls valued very positively what they learned from this experience and were proud of the blog and the resulting cartography of their work.

Watch the  Making-of Audiovisual Cartography Youth Spaces in Ciutat Vella

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