After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

understand and discuss important sociological concepts. Students can apply

• Youthood as a Relational Age Category
• Socio-Technical Transformations of Public Space
• relational Approaches to Youthood
• Social Inequality as a Positioning and Standpoint

***This course format can be attended by the official participants of the YOUTH spring school. Registration will be organised by the office of the research unit. Interested students can send their application to the related public call which will be published soon.***

Das Seminar will be held as a Spring School with a special interest in the (non)digitialised access to urban public space among youth.

The spring school is an international academic event combining co-production pedagogies through shared field work experiences, excursions, seminars and lecture inputs. Indoor sessions will also be offered at times in a hybrid format, combining in-presence with blended forms of academic learning, allowing for the participation of students and researchers in the partner cities of Belo Horizonte and Tel Aviv.

Such socio-technical transformation of what we emphasize as ‘(non)digital access to public space’ has become part of multiple articulations of youthhood as it basically affects how young people spend their youthhood, informed by both digital ways to approach urban public space, yet also by more traditional and analogues forms. Which type of (im)mobile everyday geographies of young people can be found when studying the multiple ways how streaming services, social media platforms and messenger services are combined by young people to gather in public space for myriads of reasons? Youth and youthhood is approached as a relational age category which varies according to the social, political and cultural context. In that sense, we analyse relational approaches to youthhood as a constructed discursive, symbolic and material 'reality' that is increasingly intertwined with the use of public social media entertainment platforms and deeply affected by social inequality. We perceive social inequality as a positioning and a standpoint and therefore propose its intersectional study.

We therefore invite interested students with an interest in methodological, empirical, and theoretical deepening of the study of social inequality of young people to participate in the Spring School.

Lastly, the Spring School is associcated to YOUTH, a Project of several higher education institutions - three in Vienna (Austria), one in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and one in Tel Aviv (Israel) - which, together with associated NGOs, aim at developing a transdisciplinary and intersectional methodological framework to the changes and challenges taking place around young people's access to public space due to socio-technical innovations.

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This course format can be attended by the official participants of the YOUTH spring school. Registration will be organised by the office of the research unit. Interested students can send their application to the related public call which will be published soon.

The performance assessment is based on a submitted essay on the transdisciplinary insights gained during the course.

This course format will feature a group of international participants of the YOUTH spring school (funded by CTS) which will be registered through the Research Unit's Office.