At the airport, reflecting
I spent this week in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (European Capital of Culture 2019). Bibi and I co-facilitated a workshop/learning activity centred around Cities. Youth. Future. Basically, representatives from six cities that were European capitals of youth and/or culture → Novi Sad - Serbia, Thessaloniki - Greece, Strumica - North Macedonia, Maribor - Slovenia, and Cluj-Napoca - Romania came together to work on a solution to innovate volunteering for young people in urban areas. Bibi and I were the ones to guide this process through the Design Thinking Method.
This experience was about novelty. Novelty, which is not easy to find after seven years of projects, learning, and development, but it’s always welcome. Even writing this article while at the airport is something new - I’ve never used this space for reflection.
What is not new, is that I need to write to debrief myself and then I might as well allow that text to be out there in case anyone needs it. So here we are.
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