InterGENerational Youthful Narratives: ARTs-Based Approaches to Digital Citizenship and Civic EngageMENT

Description du projet

L'art au service de la citoyenneté numérique à travers les générations

À l'ère numérique, l'art et la littérature jouent un rôle crucial en façonnant les perceptions de l'enfance, en favorisant une culture participative et en améliorant les relations entre les jeunes et les adultes plus âgés. Dans ce contexte, le projet GENARTMENT, financé par l'UE, étudiera comment les méthodes artistiques et la recherche communautaire peuvent renforcer l'engagement civique des jeunes et accroître la participation numérique des personnes âgées. En mettant l’accent sur la communication intergénérationnelle et le transfert réciproque de connaissances, le projet explorera la citoyenneté numérique des enfants en examinant le mélange d’expériences analogiques et numériques. Il vise à renforcer les liens intergénérationnels par le biais de l'art et à encourager la participation civique des jeunes en tant qu'aspect essentiel de la démocratie, en impliquant les petites communautés. GENARTMENT développera également des outils permettant de mettre en relation des personnes d’âges différents.

Objectif

This project explores how arts-based methods and community-based research principles can strengthen civic engagement among young people and enhance the digital participation of older adults. Positioned at the intersection of sociology of childhood/youth, ageing and cultural sociology, the study focuses on youthful narratives to facilitate two-way knowledge transfer through intergenerational communication, using a life course perspective.
The main objectives are: exploring children's digital citizenship experiences by understanding the interaction between analog and digital realms; strengthening intergenerational relations through arts-based methods to foster solidarity; and enhancing civic participation and participatory culture among young people as a crucial democratic heritage. The first two objectives are interconnected through arts-based methods, while the second and third are linked through intergenerational communication and collaboration. The first and third objectives promote democratization through digitalization and use art as a tool for emancipation. Art and literature aim to evolve perspectives on childhood and empower participatory culture by sharing reciprocal youthful narratives.
GENARTMENT targets small communities, including children, youth, and older adults, engaging them in the research process through co-design and co-implementation with a citizen science approach. The project involves several stages: creative data collection, integrating participatory and arts-based research methods, enhancing methodology through collaboration with children, conducting interviews to explore their digital experiences, and story collection with children and their elders through creative workshops. These stages aim to develop tools for building connections between people of various ages, exploring their past and present childhood experiences, memories, and adult imaginaries of the present and the future.