Youth and youthhood is approached as a relational age category which varies according to the social, political and cultural context which is reflected also in the geopolitical scope of the urban contexts analysed spanning from protest public spaces in Tel Aviv, peripheral corner café and cultural resistance in the urbanized region of Belo Horizonte towards diverse sets of public spaces in Vienna, both central and more peripheral. The urban studies based research project YOUTH aimed at understanding youthhood as a relational age category, and a social reality including embodied, symbolic, and material dimensions, impacting the (non)digital access to urban public spaces and their (non)virtual representation.YOUTH is a research project of five higher education institutions – the PUC Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), the Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv (Israel) and the TU Wien, FH Campus Wien and FH Technikum Wien in Vienna(Austria),  – which, together with associated NGOs, have embarked upon a collaborative journey through Vienna’s and other public spaces to develop a transdisciplinary and intersectional methodological framework to intersectionally analyse the intersection of multiple axes of inequalities and discrimination as regards the changes and challenges taking place around young people’s access to public space due to socio-technical innovations. 

What we emphasize as ‘(non)digital access to public space’ has become part of multiple articulations of youthhood as it basically affects how young people spend their youthhood, informed by both digital ways to approach urban public space, yet also by more traditional and analogous forms: in fact young people do not distinguish any more between analogous and virtual access to public space, but their reality is vi-real, a fusion of both. Which type of (im)mobile everyday geographies of young people can be found when studying the multiple ways how streaming services, social media platforms and messenger services are combined by young people to gather in public space for myriads of reasons? In that sense, we analyse relational approaches to youthhood as embodied and democratic space and as a spatially practical sociomaterial ‘reality’ that is increasingly intertwined with the use of  social media platforms and deeply affected by social inequality. We work with a framework to study social inequality in an intersectional way, thus combining the study of interferences of different axes of discrimination, exclusion and inequality.