Expanding Narratives. Youth and their Images of Sustainability

PR0JECT

lead
⇒ Jun.-Prof. Dr. Michaela Kramer & Prof. Dr. Angela Tillmann (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)

team
⇒ Alyssa Feick, Johanna Fink (Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Michelle Posmyk (until 31.03.2025)

partners
⇒ Goethe-Institute Tanzania, Academy of Arts and Cultural Education of the German Government and State of North Rhine-Westphalia, German Institute for Youth and Children's Films

funding
⇒ The Foundation „RheinEnergie Stiftung Jugend/Beruf, Wissenschaft“

duration
⇒ 05/2024 to 04/2026

Expanding Narratives in a nutshell:

Expanding Narratives explores narratives and images of sustainability in a critical, creative and analytical way. Designed as a participatory research and development project, young people from Germany and Tanzania are invited to explore how they perceive and negotiate historical and contemporary images and narratives in the media. In an intercultural exchange, the participants develop their own ideas and translate them into photographs of a sustainable future. Aiming at the participation in public discourses on sustainability, the photographs are presented online and at various events in Tanzania and Germany.

The project will be conducted from 2024 to 2026 by the University of Cologne and the University of Applied Sciences Cologne in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Tanzania, the Academy of Arts and Cultural Education and the German Institute for Youth and Children's Films.