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The Visual Story of Replacing ‘I’ with ‘We’

2020-1-TR01-KA105-0918632020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|BG|IT|EL|DE|RO · Grant: €18,503
Migrants' issuesYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Integration of refugees

Objectives

In the youth exchange project titled "The Visual Storytelling of Replacing 'I' With 'We'", which took place in Istanbul between June 23 - July 01, 2022, we aimed to increase the awareness of young people on "social inclusion" problems and to provide our young participants with media use competences with the "visual storytelling" tool. . Throughout our project, we used different methods such as photography, video and collage, which are visual storytelling tools, in order to improve non-formal education methods, especially the processes of knowledge about social inclusion. At the end of our project, our participants contributed to this field with some concrete suggestions and creative visual outputs that will help in social inclusion. Our youth exchange project titled A Visual Story About “WE” Not “I”, Turkey (InslusYouth), Italy (ORIEL ETS), Romania (ASOCIATIA TINERII 3 D), Bulgaria (TI MOZHESH LI), Greece (Youth Empowerment Center) and Germany (KULTUR & ART INITIATIVE EV) brought together 38 young people in Istanbul. As a result of our needs assessments, such as problems related to social inclusion, lack of awareness of social inclusion among young people, insufficient involvement of young people in decision-making processes related to social inclusion, and the use of visual storytelling tool in the field of social inclusion is not being evaluated, visual storytelling has been covered in order to produce solutions to problems related to social inclusion. Different communication methods are used. We can define our aims of realizing the project, primarily based on which needs it addresses, as follows: Needs: • Problems related to social inclusion • Discourses that marginalize rather than include cultural diversity • Problems faced by refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants • Judgments that hinder social inclusion • Lack of awareness of social inclusion among young people • Inadequacy of social adaptation studies • Young people are not sufficiently involved in decision-making processes in the field of social inclusion. • Lack of resources supporting the field of social inclusion • Inadequacy of activities on social inclusion • Language communication barrier in activities carried out to raise awareness in the field of social inclusion • Failure to evaluate the use of visual storytelling tool in the field of social inclusion. Purposes: • To bring solutions to the problems related to social inclusion • Producing discourses that increase intercultural awareness • Developing solutions to the problems faced by refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants • Reducing prejudices about social inclusion • Young people come together to identify problems in the field of social inclusion and support the development of solutions. • Creating resources to support social inclusion • To produce activities in the field of social inclusion • Using alternative communication methods to overcome the language barrier in the social inclusion process (eg visual storytelling, discourse naratology) • Using the "visual storytelling" tool to solve problems in the field of social inclusion The reason why we chose visual storytelling as a tool in our project; is the potential for visual storytelling to be used in youth work as a tool that young people use to tell and express their stories. During our visual storytelling tool project, by helping young people tell their own stories by using their imagination and creativity, it contributed to the development of young people's ability to express themselves and to learn about current issues. During our project, young people addressed social problems through visual stories and took steps to bring these problems to a wider audience. This has contributed to raising social awareness of young people and promoting social change.

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