Young people and their neighbourhoods

In the Bronx teens designed their own house - How teenagers experience their neighbourhood influences their emotional development. Do they feel safe and can they express themselves? Often neighbourhood places reflect the values of adults and not of teenagers. Or they are tuned to young children but not this age group in between. In the Bronx and Almere teenagers worked with researchers, architects and artists to turn this around. Together they worked on environments that do reflect their values and make them feel at home. In the project 'Hacking Urban Boundaries (HUB)' researchers, architects and artists worked with teenagers to build an interactive toolkit for an inclusive and creative environment. Through a series of workshops youth in Almere Poort (the Netherlands) and the Bronx (NYC) learned how to make their own safe spaces, develop their own voices and design a realizable project.