It has long been so that the voice of youth doesn’t always speak a language that comes across loud and clear to adults, and young people also seem to hear things other than what the older folks say.

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Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges we are facing at the moment. The question is how we can find ways to go on with our lifes or improve them without ruining our environment. Although there are quite a few organisations and initiatives focussing on this topic, there’s still quite a way to go.

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Sustainability is the key issue of our time. The question of how to configure our future in a way that generations to come will be able to spent their time on Earth with as much pleasure and as few problems as possible is now the focus of attention on the part of political leaders and researchers. But there’s still a lot more to be done.

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27 Young People – 10 Professionals – 1 Serious Game

Young people develop a social web game. On the 22 workshop days—seven of them during the Create Your World Festival—young people age 12-18 will get a rundown on the mechanisms of game design from experts in the computer game industry and the field of media pedagogy, which will enable the youngsters to develop their own game.

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Radio OE1 made an interview with Susi Windischbauer, the curator of the festival. Enjoy!

Youth and young people will share the spotlight at Ars Electronica 2011. Making its debut this year is a festival designed especially to provide youngsters with opportunities and settings to show what they can do, how they go about their R&D efforts, how they perceive our world and what they have in mind for its future. This festival within a festival is being curated by Ars Electronica’s Susi Windischbauer, who already has several youth-oriented productions to her credit. Here are a few sneak previews of projects and ideas currently in development for CREATE YOUR WORLD …

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Create Your World – Festival of the Next Generation

August 31 to September 6, 2011 in Linz, Austria

Does this sound familiar? You’ve always wanted to do something like investigate your own DNA or breed a new plant variety and name it after yourself, but you lack the necessary lab equipment.

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As part of the lead-in to the CREATE YOUR WORLD festival, there was competition on the subject of youthful explorers and young thinking. This is one of the winning texts.

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