Imagine Sheppey: Fast Forward

The Imagine Sheppey Fast Forward project explores young people's orientations to the future, specifically how 16 to 20 year olds living or studying on the Isle Sheppey imagine their adult lives. The artist’s collective, Tea, worked with the sociologists, Dawn Lyon and Giulia Carabelli, to develop creative, participatory and performative methods to facilitate future imagining. This involved a series of one-day workshops during which young people experimented with making small changes to existing places to show and stimulate different ideas and images of the future. The participants took charge of the project by directing, filming and photographing the workshop activities. The Imagine Sheppey Fast Forward video documents this process. This is a work package within a much larger Connected Communities initiative on Community Engagement and Mobilisation. The larger project is ‘The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen’ – or Imagine for short