Imagine the Future

How will young people change what you do?
How can we help young people get the future they want?
What will being 15 mean in ten years’ time?
What are we most scared of when we think about the future?

Whilst talking about the above questions, delegates created and built scultpures of how schools might look in the future, using various creative materials from Lego to pipe cleaners.

The following are some of the points that came up on our 'lightbulb wall'

• Fear society being much more policed
• Modelling the future.  Less choice vs. more choice.
• Personal safety
• I think gun crime with youngsters needs to stop as they are the future of tomorrow.
• Opportunities for young and old to share energy, ideas and experience.
• Be yourself, start something new.  Be individual, be original.  Less worry, more fun.
• Don’t lose your social skills.
• More surveillance...less privacy?
• How will we communicate?
• Accepting change
• Politics of aspiration
• Living in temporary communities, changing cultures.
• Kailey is thinking about running a young arts night every week at the Orchard Youth Centre.
• Young people inspiring other young people.
• Worried about young people living in an increasingly VIRTUAL world.
• ‘Some people say they’re scared of change, me I’m more scared of things staying the same’ – Nick Cave.
• Worried about child on child crime.
• We need to feel more connected, not live behind closed doors.  Global connectedness has to start with local cohesion.
• The end of concentration.
• Nurture – food for thought. 
• Communicate. 
• Express yourself.