Exploring Youth Critical Collective Futuring as Learning
Melissa Perez, Angela Calabrese Barton, Day Greenberg, Chandler Turner · Proceedings. · 2023
Youth critical collective futuring (YCCF) is a constellation of practices and ways of being that come together to shape and refigure the future through actions in the present.Using current literature on relational learning and STEAM making, we present an analytic vignette from a critical ethnography in a middle-grade out-of-school online STEAM makerspace.We argue for exploring YCCF as a form of learning that is relationally constructed across space and time.So like, [adults] tend to underestimate people depending on their age, skin color, [...] or just anything, but honestly we are all people.Just because you are a child doesn't mean you don't know things, so if people choose not to listen, that's kind of annoying.Like, how they just think 'oh you're a child so you don't know anything, adults know more, adults know more than you do,' so like it's kind of annoying how that's how some people think.But honestly, anybody can know anything; it just depends on what research you do, or like, what you are trying to learn about.-Lily, age 12, Black maker of cat hats