Course structure

Participants

The selection process

This course aimed to bring together a wide range of learners across Europe from different backgrounds, focusing on people who have a personal and/or professional experience of transnational migration, and/or have a background in social work, social policy, urban geography, urban planning, urban design, architecture, visual arts, public performance and other creative disciplines engaging with urban space. We wanted to create an international community of practitioners that span these fields and are willing to integrate different forms of knowledge into their future practice. To create this community, HEIs launched a call including the course prospectus. • 40+ candidatures received by HEIs. • Evaluation based on CVs, motivation letters and individual interviews. • Criteria for selection: past work/education experiences; affinity with the topics of migration and urban inclusion; personal motivation; skills; ethnic/cultural/language diversity.

CSOs also launched the call among their recipients/learners by relying on the course prospectus. • 20+ candidatures received by CSOs • Evaluation based on CVs, motivation letters and individual interviews.

• Criteria for selection: personal motivation; personal experience of migration; consistency of the educational/professional path with the contents of the course; availability to attend appointments in presence and remotely; ; administrative status and capacity to travel.

The learning community

Following the selection process, the cohort attending the course consisted of 29 learners from seven institutions in four different countries, largely but not entirely coming from the fields of architecture and urban planning. The community showed great diversity in terms of both educational/professional as well as ethnic and cultural background.

Figure 3: Learner survey (October 2021). Multiple choice question. 24

Figure 4: Learner survey (October 2021). Open question, 24 respondents.

Figure 5: Working group 3 (courtyards and neighbourhoods) in Milan. Photo Luisa Durrer.

Figure 6: Workshop in Berlin. Photo Barbara Herschel.