Blog | Participation

31. January 2025

Care for whom? Reflections on care practices in the city of Berlin

Joana Martins

Care can be understood in different ways depending on the social-political context in question. What for some may seem like a lack of care, for others is just a different way of caring. By researching environmental/urban education activities with children, the author seeks to relate children´s autonomy regarding urban issues in Berlin to care practices. This blog article shows some of the first reflections of Joana Martins' field work in Berlin as a visiting fellow at CRC.

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21. April 2023

Five days in a Berlin School: Participatory workshop for the development of a Progressive Web Application

Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa | Dr.-Ing Anna Juliane Heinrich | Prof. Dr. Angela Million | Dr. Ludovica Tomarchio

The article describes the basic principles and some key exercises of the five-day participatory workshop that took place in Berlin in November 2022 with a group of young students. The aim of the workshop was to develop a progressive web application together with the young Berliners, which will later be used by the same students to create mental maps, a research method employed to record the routines, paths and experiences of young people in (their) spaces.

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