UKH House of possibilities EVALUATION OF UKH YOUTH CULTURE HOUSE 2014-2017 Page 7 MAIN CONCLUSIONS OF THE EVALUATION Page 26 UKH AS A SPRINGBOARD Page 31 HOME FROM HOME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ART | CULTURE | DEVELOPMENT | INFLUENCE | COMMUNITY "I hope it will continue to be a house of possibilities, that it won't become a house for just one group, and that it continues to be open for all kinds of projects and individuals." JESPER STOUBY STISEN, AGED 26 HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES EVALUATION OF UKH YOUTH CULTURE HOUSE 2014-2017 1st edition, 1st issue, August 2017 Print run: 300 Prepared by Urban Goods for the Department of Culture, City of Aarhus EDITOR, TEXT AND DATA COLLECTION: Urban Goods LAYOUT AND ILLUSTRATIONS: KRIMS PHOTO PROCESSING: THORA FOTOGRAFI PHOTOS: • Bilal Bax Aqtash (front page, pp 4+5, p 13 no. 5, p 17 bottom, pp 18+19, p 26, pp 28-30, p 31 bottom, p 32, p 37, p 38 nos. 1+2, p 39, p 44, p 52 bottom, p 55 top, p 57) • Children and Youth City Council (p 8 bottom) • Henriette Mølgaard (p 24, pp 42+43) • Henrik Hass (p 9 top, p 13 no. 3, p 21 bottom left, p 25 top, p 38 bottom) • Johan Adrian Buus (p 6, p 46) • Kio Jørgensen Ng (p 13 nos. 1+2, p 16, p 17 top, p 21 top, p 25 bottom right, p 27, p 49, p 53, p 54 top, p 56) • Momen Momo Machlah (p 54 bottom) • Niclas Davidsen (p 31 top) • René Thorup Kristensen (p 3, p 22, p 40, p 47, p 59) • Simon Falkentorp (p 9 bottom, p 13 no. 4, p 15 top, p 21 bottom right, p 25 bottom left) • Urban Goods (p 7, p 8 top, pp 34+35, p 41, p 45, p 48, p 52 top, p 55 bottom) • Veronica Moreno (p 15 bottom) THANKS TO EVERYBODY who has contributed to the magazine – in particular André Thelin Nielsen, Astrid Avalin Sørensen, Bilal Bax Aqtash, Bue Grønlund, David Skadhede, Didde Maria Larsen, Eivind Ranjbar, Hannibal Krabbe Keblovszki, Helene Cherie Hornsleth, Jardel Pereira da Silva, Jesper Stouby Stisen, Kathrine Thrysøe Jespersen, Kio Jørgensen Ng, Lea Emilie Hansen, Linnea Borgkvist, Liva Bajda Østergaard, Maria Lange Madsen, Matilde Brix Lajer, Mohamed Abdikarim, Mohamed Ali, Momen Momo Machlah, Niclas Davidsen, Olak Alexandovic Sallingovskij, Ruth Morell, Sara Karim-Madsen, Stefan Steiner Jørgensen, Søren Verdoner and Trine Kold Schmidt for agreeing to be interviewed, and Christina Veng, Hanne Staahlnacke, Henrik Hass, Lone Jensen, Malene Farup and Pernille Refstrup for supplying background data. 2 CONTENTS YOUR GUIDE TO THE MAGAZINE ............................................................................. 4 UKH YOUTH CULTURE HOUSE – A LABORATORY FOR YOUTH AND CULTURE ............ 5 TIMELINE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF UKH YOUTH CULTURE HOUSE ............................. 6 MAIN CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................... 7 A DAY AT UKH ....................................................................................................... 11 ORGANISATION OF THE PLACE .............................................................................. 13 IN IT TOGETHER FOR UKH ...................................................................................... 16 UKH STYLE ............................................................................................................. 18 DO’S AND DON’TS FOR EMPLOYEES ...................................................................... 19 UKH IN NUMBERS ................................................................................................. 20 EXAMPLES OF USER TYPES AT UKH ........................................................................ 22 VOX POP ............................................................................................................... 23 UKH AS A SPRINGBOARD ....................................................................................... 26 SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE .......................................................................... 28 FROM HOBBY TO WORK PLACEMENT .................................................................... 29 ADVICE ON HOW TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED ............................................ 31 HOME FROM HOME .............................................................................................. 31 ACTIVITY CATEGORIES AT UKH .............................................................................. 32 VOX POP ............................................................................................................... 33 CROSS-GROUP COLLABORATION ........................................................................... 37 VOX POP ............................................................................................................... 38 NETWORK OF PARTNERS ....................................................................................... 41 LEARNING FOR LIFE ............................................................................................... 43 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE................................................................. 46 BEHIND THE MAGAZINE ........................................................................................ 47 3 Your guide to the magazine Depending on your interest in UKH Youth Culture House, you can dip into different perspectives of the project. AS A POLITICIAN you might benefit from reading... MAIN CONCLUSIONS .................................................................... 7 ORGANISATION OF THE PLACE ................................................... 13 UKH IN NUMBERS ....................................................................... 20 NETWORK OF PARTNERS ............................................................ 41 LEARNING FOR LIFE .................................................................... 43 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE .................................... 46 AS A YOUNG PERSON you might be particularly interested in... A DAY AT UKH ............................................................................. 11 UKH STYLE ................................................................................... 18 VOX POP ..................................................................................... 23 VOX POP ..................................................................................... 33 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE .................................... 46 AS A PROFESSIONAL we recommend that you take a look at... IN IT TOGETHER FOR UKH .......................................................... 16 DO’S AND DON’TS FOR EMPLOYEES .......................................... 19 EXAMPLES OF USER TYPES AT UKH ............................................ 22 UKH AS A SPRINGBOARD ............................................................ 26 ADVICE ON HOW TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED ............... 31 LEARNING FOR LIFE .................................................................... 43 4 UKH Youth Culture House – a laboratory for youth and culture The Youth Culture House – or UKH as it is commonly known (by its Danish acronym) – is in continual flux. Over the last three years, UKH has been an attempt at developing a prototype for a culture house for young people with the purpose of examining and testing ideas for activities, environment and organisation. The Youth Culture House is the brainchild of young people in the City of Aarhus, and it was helped along by the three city departments: Children & Young People, Culture & Citizens' Services, and Social Affairs & Employment. A whole string of players has backed the initiative, contributing to the project in terms of competent feedback, activities and partnerships, among other things. The foundation of the project has been a co-creative approach where users and employees, young people and the City, internal players and external partners have helped define the Youth Culture House together. The project was launched for real in March 2017, when the Youth Culture House was temporarily housed in some pavilions next to The Freight Yard at the heart of Aarhus. Since then, the project has changed location several times, and facilities, activities and organisation have changed over time. The users have also been replaced to a great extent – new settings have attracted different users, young people have grown older and may have gone elsewhere, while new year groups have come along. The Youth Culture House continues to develop in leaps and bounds. This is both a quality and a necessity if you want to accommodate the different generations and types of young people who are associated with the place for a while. The Youth Culture House was primarily set up to create value for young people. In this evaluation of the Youth Culture House, we have therefore focused on the young people's experience of the place. The evaluation is presented as a magazine where you can dip into a series of articles with different perspectives about the Youth Culture House. Among other things, we ask: What is everyday life like at UKH? How is the place organised? Who uses it? What is the place used for? And what do young people gain from using UKH? What value does the place create for its partners? And what are the users' thoughts about the future of the place? You can also get a quick overview of the many different perspectives by reading the main conclusions of the evaluation on page 7. HAPPY READING! 5 Timeline for the development of UKH Youth Culture House 2010 MARCH 2010 The Children and Youth City Council in the City of Aarhus recommends to the City Council that a multipurpose house should be established in the centre of Aarhus. The house is to have creative workshops and