COVID-19 Recovery Scenario’s for Young People in Melbourne’s Inner North

The Project

This scenario planning project developed research informed scenarios of possible futures (Chaotic, Unsustainable, and Sustainable Futures) for young people in Melbourne’s inner north in 2025. This project was a partnership with the Inner Northern Local Learning and Employment Network.

Outcomes

We have finalised our report on the COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios for Young People in Melbourne’s Inner North.

The Summary report presents a brief overview of each of the three scenarios that we produced in the project. In earlier posts we presented the full account of each of these:

• Chaotic Futures: the Future We Want to Avoid
• Unsustainable Futures: The Future We Are Likely to Get
• Sustainable Futures: The Future We Hope For

The Summary report also includes a brief outline of a project proposal to develop a cohort of Youth Activists for Sustainable Futures, and a micro-credential in Leadership for Sustainable Futures.

• Download Report Summary
• Download Full Report

Publications:

• ‘Young People’s Presents and Futures, and the Moral Obligation to be Enterprising and Aspirational in Times of Crisis’ by Goring, Kelly, Carbajo Padilla and Brown (2023) in Futures
• ‘Young people and post-pandemic futures: scenario planning as a radical politics of hope’ by Kelly, Brown and Goring (2021) in Qualitative Research Journal
• ‘COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene’ by Kelly, Brown and Goring (2021) in Journal of Youth Studies
• ‘Climate change, mental health services, a better education system: what marginalised young people told us needs to be fixed’ in The Conversation
• ”Being young’, ‘living well’, in/beyond the pandemic: Exploring the entanglements between COVID-19, the Anthropocene and young people’s wellbeing’ in Wellbeing: global policies and perspectives : insights from Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond

Project Videos