2019 Programme
Event #34
Stefano Laffi
Re-writing the future of our children
Future has always been to invent. To do so, in the past we first relied on the afterlife and then on progress, that we now lack of. And nowadays? We can paint the darkness, using the black of the crisis: the only outcome has been to produce fear, disenchantment and cynicism in young people. We can celebrate the old times, take refuge in the Renaissance, up until making Italy a theme park, as it is already happening. Which benefit can take from this vision a young person that fears not to find a job? The only way is to break the shakedown of the present, learning to believe, practice the possible instead of the existing. Because the existing – as girls and boys are telling us – consumes the planet in a few years. But how do we help a generation re-writing the future? Does not the politics of the future serve for this purpose?
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/Stefano Laffi is a sociologist, lives in Milan and works for Codici, a cooperative for research and social intervention. He taught for the main universities of Milan and he is actually the consultant of the Minister of Labour for the projects directed to the young, of local administrations and third sector institutions for youth political measures. During the last years he took care of active citizenship, of participating projects, of spaces and services regeneration through the activation of local communities. For Feltrinelli he published La congiura contro I giovani (2014) and Quello che dovete sapere su di me (2016).
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