Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice
In our current climate emergency, what if we had a single, infinitely renewable resource that could save us all?
Young people have taught us that this resource is HOPE. Our new project considers hope as a political alternative that can shift the narratives of climate change.
Objectives
To explore global questions of environmental and ecological degradation along with social and political polarization using hybrid genres of drama, performance, and digital media, to encourage an interdisciplinary conversation with young people about the nature of intersecting global crises.
To examine and extend the possibilities of a global ethics of care, as part of a framework for global citizenship, within and across global ‘locals’ where young people receive each other’s digital-live theatre productions.
To clarify how intergenerational dialogues, in which youth are positioned as ‘teachers,’ can advance the aims of global climate education, as youth leaders seek environmental and social justice and try to educate their communities in the current politically polarized era.
To advance new interdisciplinary methods for application in curricula and pedagogy in drama, media studies, and across the arts, through convergences of the digital and the live, the social and the ecological, and the local and the global.