Visual mapping and sense-making

The collaboration between Árvore design students and Miragaia students lasted only one month and a half (including the Spring break). Accordingly, having in mind the schedules of two groups, LoCY team was aiming to encounter as many possibilities to meet and

Visual mapping and sense-making

The collaboration between Árvore design students and Miragaia students lasted only one month and a half (including the Spring break). Accordingly, having in mind the schedules of two groups, LoCY team was aiming to encounter as many possibilities to meet and

Pioneers’ tool for the civic terms and concepts

The aim of this tool is to provide the youngsters with some guidelines to reach their own conceptual understandings by constructing their definitions for the given civic terms and concepts. The tool was designed as an A4 handout that consisted

Pioneers’ tool for the civic terms and concepts

The aim of this tool is to provide the youngsters with some guidelines to reach their own conceptual understandings by constructing their definitions for the given civic terms and concepts. The tool was designed as an A4 handout that consisted

Exploring Miragaia elementary school

Planned, yet informal visit has been paid by the young designers to Miragaia school. The aim of this local mobility exchange was a collection of the impressions of all similarities and all dissimilarities Miragaia school had with Árvore school. Thus,

Exploring Miragaia elementary school

Planned, yet informal visit has been paid by the young designers to Miragaia school. The aim of this local mobility exchange was a collection of the impressions of all similarities and all dissimilarities Miragaia school had with Árvore school. Thus,

Formal, non-formal and informal ways of learning

Being in a classroom of Graphic Design in Árvore, the students were invited to deconstruct different kinds of education and ways of learning, as a way of understanding the learning process in order to be able to design a learning

Formal, non-formal and informal ways of learning

Being in a classroom of Graphic Design in Árvore, the students were invited to deconstruct different kinds of education and ways of learning, as a way of understanding the learning process in order to be able to design a learning

Designer’s role in the society and the one’s most important competences

In the beginning of our collaboration, design students from Árvore school were invited to assess their values and their self-awareness in regards to: / What is a designer’s role in the contemporary society? / What are the most important competencies that come

Designer’s role in the society and the one’s most important competences

In the beginning of our collaboration, design students from Árvore school were invited to assess their values and their self-awareness in regards to: / What is a designer’s role in the contemporary society? / What are the most important competencies that come

Staging the community of practice through codesign of a learning tool 

Lab of Collaborative Youth aimed to develop and design a dictionary that could support an understanding of the concepts related to the youth policies and civic participation, and the influence it has on youngsters’ life, as to support critical and

Staging the community of practice through codesign of a learning tool 

Lab of Collaborative Youth aimed to develop and design a dictionary that could support an understanding of the concepts related to the youth policies and civic participation, and the influence it has on youngsters’ life, as to support critical and

The emerging challenge of a language

In the first program Recreio dos pioneiros the terminology and its concepts related to civic participation and youth policies have been applied and tackled in the communication with the group of students from Miragaia elementary school. From this experience, it came to

The emerging challenge of a language

In the first program Recreio dos pioneiros the terminology and its concepts related to civic participation and youth policies have been applied and tackled in the communication with the group of students from Miragaia elementary school. From this experience, it came to