Over the last six weeks Tate Forum members and Lottie Child have explored issues around behaviour in public space and exploring these issues and devised this Street Training route and a series of Street Training Techniques which we will demonstrate we’ll then encourage you to try your own.

Street Training is a renegade urban practice designed to make you and the streets more creative. We encourage joyful spontaneous responses rather than ones that involve planning and choreography. This is training in making judgements for appropriate action in the situations that arise as we move through and inhabit the city.

Young people are often very creative users and shapers of public space, looking for opportunities to play, test boundaries, take risks and make connections. When valued and discussed this spontaneous behaviour can effect actual positive changes in public places.

Unfortunately due to lack of provision for young people’s unstructured use of public space and legal measures such as ABOS, behaviour that is playful, creative and intelligent can sometimes be criminalised.

In this session we explore free, playful behaviour, with awareness of risks and opportunities for joy in the streets. A guiding principle is the freedom to do one’s own thing balanced with making sure that everyone else can have the freedom they want as well. Please tell us if you have a problem or any worry as soon as it comes up.