The OL builds on the expertise of several CIVIS research groups and centers on participatory and collaborative work with children and youth focused on critically examining the current socialization and educational experiences of young people across a variety of formal and informal contexts. Our socio-educational proposals stemming from the OL aim to contribute to sustainable development goals through work with young people. The disciplinary and thematic outreach of the OL is broad and is/will be capable of collaborating with informal groups of children and youth, schools, non-formal educational organizations, families and communities. The transversal feature of our work is the use of participatory/collaborative, qualitative, multimodal and arts-based methodologies with young people. We also draw on expertise in the use of interactive, digital and geomedia research devices with young people.
The first OL project began its planning in the Summer of 2025 and is particularly interested in the experiences and mobilities of children and youth in urban contexts and in addressing the needs of diverse childhoods, young people at social risk and adopting a critical and intersectional perspective (that problematizes the role of gender, social class and cultural-geographical background, as well as other forms of diversity) to research and social intervention.
