Project description
The youth club has been a place where young people are able to explore beyond the home and school, learn new skills and make friends. It has particular resonance in an urban context as a safe space to positively shape the trajectory of young people’s lives. There is an urgent need to reimagine what the youth club could be following two decades of austerity and a 50% reduction in funding into these facilities, a mental health epidemic and poor prospects afforded to young people from working-class backgrounds and the global majority. This project aims to integrate spaces and a place for young people in a more embedded way in the urban grain. Taking the street as the spine with adaptive reuse of adjacent railway arches and existing shops and street frontages, a more porous piece of city is created. Genuine conversation and processes of mutual benefit between young people, the general public and business-owners with skills to share are given space to flourish.
Contact
Website: Teshomedc.com