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Hope: The Utopian Imagination of Youth on the Margins - An Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts event

29th February 2008 - July 2008

Who decides the future of our society?  How do we imagine this future?  Whose voices do we hear and whose are silenced?  In partnership with the University of South Australia, the Migration Museum is presenting the exhibition Hope: The Utopian Imagination of Young People on the Margins, which will explore these contentious issues.

This innovative multimedia exhibition turns inside out traditional museum content with a focus on the future and ideas driven by the voices of those not usually heard in our mainstream institutions.  Visitors will be confronted, challenged, engaged and perhaps begin to question their own ideas about hope and our future.

The exhibition grew out of a research project which worked on the premise that to build a sustainable society we need to know what people hope for and what they want in the future.  Young people from alternative education schools in the Adelaide Metropolitan area were asked to draw and describe the future as they saw it and were given cameras to photograph places, people and things which gave them a sense of hope.

The resulting multimedia exhibition explores these young people’s hopes, fears and imaginings in ways that are both familiar and surprising.