Since 2014, the Lab of Collaborative Youth has organized educational codesign programs in two Porto’s neighborhoods (Miragaia and Ramalde):

/ Recreio dos Pioneiros [Pioneers’ Playground] with three different stages (warmUP: April – June 2014, buildUP: October 2014 – June 2015, play: November 2015), conducted with the voluntary participants/students in an elementary school of Miragaia. This program aimed at learning about and from youngsters what it means to be a learner, a citizen, and how we can codesign learning processes together;

/ The first edition Ilustracionário, à minha maneira 1.0 [Illustracionary, in my own way 1.0] in 2015, which aimed at establishing synergies between the students/volunteers of an elementary school in Miragaia and the students of arts and design from the Vocational and Artistic School Árvore. Based in the same local context, it encouraged the formation of the community of practice through the situated learning and the co-creation processes.

/ The second edition Ilustracionário, à minha maneira 2.0 [Illustracionary, in my own way 2.0] in 2017, was implemented in the elementary school in Ramalde. This program was co-developed as a set of educational activities together with the educational school community and their students inside the classroom within specific discipline and module. We aimed at co-creating a learning environment in which each partner-participant could practice their citizenship while codesigning the learning processes and a learning tool – visual dictionary – as a tangible outcome of our collaboration.