Systemic changes at TiG around thinking about accessibility and doing audits of the work.
Regular meetings helped in order to get feedback on how projects were going.
Bringing together youth at the margins of society.
Diverse inclusion.
Capacity building.
Openness and flexibility of the project.
Ability to explore.
Each of the partners brought parts of what they were working on and what they knew and enhanced it through the project.
Diverse products were generated.
Connecting with community and seeing the impact in people’s lives.
Co-designing with young people - inclusion by design
What didn’t go well
At the beginning it was difficult to understand - what we were doing and how
Challenge in visualizing all the products that were generated and share them
Couldn’t make people feel ownership of the tool (wikipedia). Only a few teachers were interested. Even with a dedicated person working with them
Difficult to change habits
We didn’t get the content translated
What can we do differently
Shared metrics or performance indicators. Setup and agreed to at the beginning of the project. How many people? How many events? How many stories did we collect?
Find a way of having the youth take on the mentorship of the things that we helped to initiate.
Clarity around budgets and plans from the beginning
Instead of formal report, report in a way that can be put on the website to be generally shared
Website design work could have started sooner
Simplified website - more adaptability, more alternatives
Figure out translation for the website early
Meeting in different places would be nice
Getting the youth from different places together to share their experiences
Create more practical guides for people to enact inclusion - making ramps, accommodations etc.
Create more collaborative resources together among the partners. Making sure one groups website is inclusive of other groups - language, context etc.
Translation is paramount in this type of project and will allow for more cross pollination between partner groups.
More brainstorming between groups instead of so much independent work.
Use more social media
Bringing young people into regular meetings and a co-design process.
Budgeting translation and accessibility services from the beginning.