Future Dreams of Young People – Tools to Promote Young People’s Civic Participation

Abstract

<p>Do we hear the voice of children and young when developing our society? The research project “Young<br>people’s images of the future 2067” focuses on bringing forth youth’s dreams and hopes for the future,<br>and based on those desires to construct proposals for policymakers. A participatory future camp<br>method is used to challenge high school and vocational school students to ponder on future issues.<br>Based on future camp material a survey with six different futures images is designed and respondents<br>rate them according to probability and desirability. It is found out that the future camp method can be<br>used both for encouraging futures thinking and gathering data of future related values and thoughts.<br></p>