Storytooling Laboratory Methodology - Tourism, Culture and Design

Abstract

Storytooling aimed to foster a European vision of the integration of young people around post-industrial heritage. It is part of a logic of innovation and inclusion through the experimentation of a transnational laboratory that aims to develop tools, skills and methods for the inclusion of unemployed and/or school dropouts, creating tailor-made inclusion paths for these young people. Under the impulse of the European Year of Youth 2022 and the New European Bauhaus, this laboratory aimed to create new heritage narratives developed by young people. Storytooling took place in five different territories, located in Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia. In common, they have a strong industrial and rural heritage presence and similar challenges related to rurality, loss of youth populations and unemployment, which served as a starting point for designing the methodology of Storytooling Laboratory.