Julia spoke about her work exploring innovative participatory research methods to engage young people, particularly young women and girls in imagining, researching and designing public space.
The Mayors Innovation Studio brought together over 150 mayors from 55 countries. It marked the launch of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund, providing technical assistance and funding to support mayors worldwide in engaging tens of thousands of young people aged 15 to 24 in designing, producing, and overseeing urgent climate solutions, from tree-planting to policy making. Efforts stemming from the Youth Climate Action Fund are expected to ignite awareness and action in communities to advance climate goals as critical as meeting decarbonization and reducing consumption-based emissions.
Julia's most recent project the Young Researchers-in-Residence project. The project produced a report intended for developers and local authorities who create public spaces and those who advise and work with them. It provides an evidence base on how gender impacts young people’s experience of the public realm, and proposes what could be done to better include young people within the public realm.
Find out more about the Young Researchers-in-Residence project and download the report