Experiential futuring as co-creative methodology to help youth respond to social media outage in (un)liveable climates

We will explore the potential of experiential futuring methodology to develop a realistic scenario on how society and civilization is currently built in disaster and political sensitive areas and what our global society would look like under the conditions of a climate-related digital power apocalypse. Starting from the perspective of increasing resilience rather than accepting an apocalypse scenario we will develop hands-on, creative strategies that might need to be considered for preventing and surviving such an existential threat. Here, we will move beyond the commonly promoted solution of self-supportive batteries by adding potential scenarios of politically inspired censurisation of the web to the apocalypse line of argument, both from a global and a local point of view. We will also explore how developed strategies could best be shared with other communities in the absence of a power grid that nurtures our social media accounts, virtual environments or platforms. The following questions will be central to this exploration:

1. What can be learned by youth from people living in natural disaster or politically sensitive regions with regular disruptions of the digital communication infrastructure?
2. How do we increase youths' ability to control eco-anxiety and collectively take care of knowledge exchange in the absence of the modern, yet fragile, digital environments that we take for granted?
3. What sort of digital climate can be built for youngsters to reside when all is lost under pressure from climate change related events and politically disruptive climates.

Secondary to this set of research questions we will explore the added value of using digital forms of creative futuring research methodology in responding imaginatively to collectively aspired climate futures