What is Creative Generation?
Creative Generation is an intergenerational participatory audiovisual project designed by Big Bang Lab, aiming to create links between communities of residents living in Housing Estates and neighbourhoods in London. In our society we are facing a lack of human and social interaction between young people and older people.
Creative Generation is an attempt to restore a sense of commonplace and a better understanding of each other's narratives in order to build a better future. Some stories can get lost forever so archiving the conversations and interviews on video is important for the community and for future generations.
This project is a combination of creative oral history with civic lead journalism using video as a tool to capture stories, travel on time to the past, to the future and maybe come up together with new solutions to old problems.
Let's explore our collective wisdom!
Creative Generation is an attempt to restore a sense of commonplace and a better understanding of each other's narratives in order to build a better future. Some stories can get lost forever so archiving the conversations and interviews on video is important for the community and for future generations.
This project is a combination of creative oral history with civic lead journalism using video as a tool to capture stories, travel on time to the past, to the future and maybe come up together with new solutions to old problems.
Let's explore our collective wisdom!
WHAT IS OUR WISDOM FOR?
What can be learnt across generations? We are living longer and have access to tools that allow us to create and distribute digital audio and video content almost instantly. However we are missing the opportunity offered by technology to create, preserve and share the digital content and using it to promote new dialogues of reciprocity between ages and start thinking of heritage as innovation strategy towards the future. Challenged by uncertain times ahead, we must trust our ability to co-create new paradigms of sustainability if we start conversations across generations. We need new ideas to build stronger communities and learn to share resources, ideas, stories, knowledge and skills in a true collaborative and participative environment. It sounds all good but what is the strategy in such a complex world we live?
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