Digital Youth Work is Infrastructure

This experimental project seeks to highlight the role of youth workers as digital inclusion leaders within non-formal educational spaces. It will document the everyday practices of digital education taking place in youth work through creative, participatory methods.

The project aims to co-create a range of visual and cultural outputs—including zines, audio letters, and visual materials—that engage stakeholders and inform policy. It will provide a participatory platform for reflecting on and disrupting how policy is traditionally developed and shared. In doing so, it will leave behind an open-ended creative toolkit that the DYWR.HUB can continue to use and adapt.

The project treats policymaking not as a top-down process, but as something that can be co-created through relational and creative practices, rooted in the realities of youth work.

Outputs

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Banner image for the project report with the title 'Where is Digital Youth Work?' in white text on a black background. To the right of the text is a composite graphic with abstract illustrations of young people in different postures.

Team

Maria Cristina Bacalso – independent researcher on adolescents, youth & policy