Speakers:
Daze Aghaji
Earthrise Studios and Blagrave Trust
Yuan Yang
Financial Times
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In a time of disorientation and transition, time horizons can close down and shorten, moving closer and closer to us in the present day as we struggle to cope and make sense of the world around us. But this short-termism - where the future is treated as ‘empty time’ - means we are treating short-term gains over our future collective good. And we’re not considering younger and future generations that will be left with the choices we make today.
We want to bring the future into our present and this session is an invitation to all of us to connect with the long-term, so we can pay more attention to it in the short-term and honour young people and their futures. Without this capacity to connect emotionally and deeply to our collective future, we may not find the bravery and ambition needed to take the actions required in this decisive decade. In other words, developing this longer-term view, and caring for present and future generations, will help us to change our behaviour today.
There’s nobody more important to remind us of this (though they shouldn’t need to!) than young people themselves. We’re lucky to have them on stage today.
Daze’s work
Yuan’s work