... because we humans can only work for a future we can imagine.

Welcome to Carmen Stewart's home page: Painting the future real 1996/97

I recently conducted a survey into the hopes and fears young people hold for our future. From my research and interactions with young people, I found that many of them are lacking hope and vision and now believe there is a need to gain a greater understanding of the personal and social implications of young people's world views and the hopes and fears they contain.

My research suggests that young people are not lacking in information about global issues but rather the opportunities to process the overwhelming nature of their awareness. Increasingly global issues are becoming very personal as the real and imagined fears they create affects the ability of young people to maintain hope in their personal and collective futures.

Young people care about their world and have an enormous capacity to contribute to it in positive and creative ways. I am therefore interested in helping them explore the values, visions and actions that are needed to contribute to a sustainable future, a process which will also add depth and purpose to their personal experience.

I would like to connect with other people who have been researching, questioning or experimenting along the same lines.

[Page history: created and first published on www.ecoversity.org.au as part of Painting the future real (1995-97); taken off-line in 1998 and re-posted in its original form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]