Youth: a symbol of the future but burdened by uncertainty and crises. The final episode of the Knowledgeable Youth podcast discusses ‘futurological’ outlooks and post-high school plans.
In the final episode of Knowledgeable Youth, the Ukrainian students of the Free People Educational Hub in Vienna reflect on what kind of future they envision for themselves and the world. Their conversation is inspired by the article “Children of the Twenty-First Century” by Lucas Becht, which delves into young people’s futuristic visions in Poland around the 1960s. The students discuss where they see themselves after high school, and what their impressions of Austria and life in Vienna have been so far.
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Youth, culturally associated with the future, seems increasingly afflicted by uncertainty and crises. Can looking ahead be informed by past moments of transition? In 1960s Poland young people’s ‘futurological’ outlooks uncovered the microsocial ambivalences of technological progress, revealing cracks in mass communist ideology.
Knowledgeable Youth: Science Communication in Times of War is co-organised by Eurozine, RECET, Radio Orange and the Free People Educational Hub in Vienna. The project is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. Read more about the project here: www.eurozine.com/focal-points/youth-project/.
Published 21 August 2024
Original in English
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Contributed by RECET Radio Orange © Eurozine
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