The title “Under Construction” recognizes that our municipal service systems are built and rebuilt through our collective actions. It also highlights our ambition to support a meaningful and significant transition in how we are doing things together. Based on our recent research, we know that redesigning public services requires active re-negotiation across a huge host of relations. Therefore, we were getting people from across these systems that depend on each other to realize change into the same room to support this critical negotiation. One more important thing, this “Under Construction” title also reflects the realization that we need these events to be more than just learning events where folks can just come by and check out what we are up to in the Re:Structure project. If we have any hope of catalyzing the kind of transformation we’re after to prevent youth outsiderness, we need these events to be working sessions where everyone who participates gets their hands dirty and is in the thick of the mess of the transition with us. So we are inviting folks with a stake in the municipal service systems that we are trying to change to get to work at our Reconstruction Site at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. This includes youth, parents, service providers, policy-makers, politicians, community organizers, researchers and many more. But we’ve made a rule that there can be no observers, no posers, and no performers. We need everyone to be willing to be changed by what we learn and do together. At this event, participants will experience an immersive exhibition, created by over 50 youth co-researchers from Asker, Bærum and Trondheim with support from local service providers and AHO service design students. This participatory exhibition exposes how the support systems intended for everyone end up pushing some to the margins. It challenges how public services tackle outsiderness by helping individuals to fit into narrow notions of normal. Using a wide range of media from hip hop to photography to model making, the exhibition aims at sparking critical dialogue with the folks shaping municipal services about how the current response to youth outsiderness is part of the problem. On May 27th, we need to risk ourselves not having it all figured out—to let the knowledge shared by youth change our thinking about the ways that municipal service systems might be otherwise to enable belonging. Based on our learning from engaging with these immersive installations, participants will together identify and prioritize structural changes in municipal services to inform the experimentation we will be doing in Asker, Bærum and Trondheim starting in Fall 2026. Together, we will build an understanding about how we can enable the changes that we need to prevent youth outsiderness and what we can each do differently to contribute. So come ready with your full tool belt and hard hat. Many hands make light work. Welcome to our Reconstruction Site!