Walking Against Colonialism

Aims & objectives

- To exchange best practices around how to conduct postcolonial city tours.
- To make postcolonial city tours to be an offer in more cities in Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia and support each other in creating them.
- To discuss how postcolonial city tours can be used as an educational method specifically for young people on a local level and in international youth projects (such as volunteering camps, youth exchanges, volunteer preparation, etc.).
- To discuss how postcolonial city tours can be used as a tool of empowerment for BIPOC youth.
- To discuss how postcolonial city tours can include intersectional perspectives (e.g class, gender, sexual orientation, dis/abilities) both in terms of content and methodology.
- To create a network of organisations and collectives that offer postcolonial city tours with young people and we want to stay in touch also afterwards, creating a bigger follow-up project after this.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

18 years old or older from the countries of our partner organisations: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia.

Team: SCI Switzerland, Freelance Trainers from Critical Queer Solidarity (Germany) and Ireland

Training methods used & main activities

Popular, experiential and non-formal education. Group dynamic games, research, group discussions, team building games, silent exhibition, free writing exercises, movement exercises.

Outcomes of the activity

We created a network of like-minded organisations working on postcolonial city tours. This includes
guidelines in English for youth workers on how to do postcolonial city tours with young people. We added
a new chapter on postcolonial city tours as an educational method to the SCI toolkit „Picturing the Global South: The Power Behind Good Intentions“.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

session planning, project management, research, team management, team building, venue logistics, altering
frameworks based on specific needs, facilitating sessions including leading sessions, moderating discussions and facilitating exercises, participating in follow-up meetings and evaluations after the training courses

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.