Making a Living

We're using creative methods to uncover your experiences on how you cope with trying to make a living. We'll use these to develop scenarios and a guide on how, through the process of coping with the crisis, young people are creating new ways of making a living. Individual members and local groups can participate by

Winning an infographic by taking part in our survey Selecting one or more of the creative methods

Objective Output(CTRL + click on image to see example)

Activity Preparation (see page 2-4 for details on these activities)

Scheduled Date

Develop scenarios of different types of futures for young people

Stories describing four alternative scenarios of the future on how young people can make a living in 2020

Examples of Scenario Stories and Scenarios

Work with a designer to produce four different How to Make a Living In 2020 Scenarios based on the research outputs & written/visual content from the activities below (see Project Activities)

These will be accompanied by “Day in the Life of...” stories of imaginary characters representing each scenario, produced by a storyteller and imaginary neighbourhoods of the feature based on the visuals collected.

A “How would you make a living in 2020” Game will be developed using above content - based on urban game techniques in the neighbourhoods where the content was produced.

June

Design a guide of methods on how to develop creative ways to make a living

A guide of methods where people can use the different “cards” developed in the activities below to encourage young people in precarious work situations to develop creative ways to make a living

Share guide with other cities so they can use the guide with local members to develop ideas on creative ways to make a living

A Project Website, Design Methods Guide, Workshop Guide, Survey, Story Guide and Animation have been produced to enable groups to use the methods to participate in the project

+10 video interviews have been produced for a documentary on how people develop creative ways of coping

+20 audio interviews have been produced for an online radio show

Produce the cards for the guide

June

Project Activities

Objective Output

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Activity Scheduled Date

Understand the different types of work situation

Description of different types of Personas of young people trying to make a living

Interview young people in your city on how they cope making a living and their expectations

60+ stories, +20 audio interviews and +10 video interviews have been produced so far. Local groups can still interview young people using our Methods Guide and Questions .

May

Project Team will use the answers to define different types of precarious work situation and create “personas” for each different type

Work with a storyteller to produce stories based on each of the personas, which are currently being developed – Zombie Generation, Life Hackers, Invisible Citizens and Militant Optimists

May

May

The main editorial idea is to show, starting from those individual stories, what are the links between the different journeys of the precarious workers into the unfriendly & hostile labour market

The idea is to develop an intelligent database of experiences, helping Transeuropa Network to have a common understanding of the difficult & transnational issues around precarity

Produce a publication which documents a selection of written interviews with experts on the issues young people face making a living.

May

Understand the different types of support for young people in making a living

Description of different types of support through creating Support Cards and how the organisations providing the support interact through creating an Actors Map

Interview young people in your city on what support they use and value to make a living

Research types of support that your city provides to young people in precarious work situations

May

May

Project Team will use the answers & research to define different types of support and use as content to produce Support Cards and an Actors Map

Understand how young people cope psychologically & practically with making a living

Description of different types of ways people cope through creating Emotion Cards & Action Cards

Interview young people in your city on how they cope emotionally and practically

+400 visuals have been produced showing people, places and practices that represent the problems and opportunities of trying to make a living

May

Describe the journey they go through in coping with these situations through creating a Citizen Journey Map

Project Team will use the answers to define types of ways people cope psychologically & practically and use as content to produce Emotion and Action Cards

May

Understand how the

Description of different types of effects on people’s attitudes through the creating a System Map

Interview young people in your city on how their work situation affects their attitudes on society

June

effects of different work situations affect young people’s attitudes on other issues

Project Team will use the answers to define different types of attitudes and use content to produce the System Map

Understand how people develop creative ways of making a living

Description of different types of creative ways to make a living through creating Method Cards

Identify and interview groups/people in your city who have developed creative ways to make a living

A Case Study Template has been produced to enable local groups to fill in content from activities they know (see example from Cluj)

June

Project Team will use the answers to define types of creative ways to make a living and use as content to produce Method Cards

July