1. How to make a living in 2020
We get treated like kids with pocket money wages and pay the poverty premium for it. We’re
cheaper to pay and easier to fire. Many of us have gone from low pay to no pay. We’re the
generation that thought we had it all until the crisis showed us our dreams were built on a house of
cards.
We have nothing to show for and confused about our future. We’ve gone from Generation Y to
Generation Why. It’s difficult to know what’s worse: expecting not to have the things your parents
had, and preparing yourself for alternatives to getting a job, a house or even a degree – or
assuming everything’s going to be OK, until you realise that your dreams have been privatised.
How we cope with this shock will affect not just how we can build a better future, but whether we
can conceive of a better future at all. Young people cope emotionally in different ways – from
being scared about what to do next to seeking advice from anyone who will listen. We also cope
practically to try and make a living – from trying to save money through negotiating with the
landlord
to
making
money
by
selling
stuff
on
the
market.

2. Zombie Generation or Lifestyle Hackers? Future Scenarios from Europe in 2020
We’ve travelled from community centres to skyscraper boardrooms to local festivals across the
continent to uncover how young people are coping with the crisis in creative ways – from a
rickshaw driver turned MBA student to a dustbin man turned serial entrepreneur. We’ve
interviewed young people from urban parks to street markets.
Building on the insights we’ve uncovered, we’ve designed scenarios on how people will make a
living in 2020 through the eyes of our imaginary characters – Invisible Citizens, Zombie
Generation, Militant Optimists and Lifestyle Hackers.
What if we rehearsed new realities that helped people imagine different ways of living in society?
From gaming techniques to help people develop their portfolio to documentaries to provoke social
change via getting children to make market stalls, we’ve been inspired by the methods young
entrepreneurs use to help people find meaning. We’ve helped young people to design their own
festival. That’s why people will be able to play urban games at our festival with people from other
cities across Europe imagining they had to make a living in 2020 and…survive for a day. They will
also be able take part in our designathon to develop creative solutions to help people find work.
Using creative methods, we’ve used young people’s insights and ideas to develop a guide on how,
through coping with the crisis, young people are creating new ways of making a living. From the
bomeurs on the Spanish underground to French single mothers joining occupations via English
graduates travelling Europe to discover alternatives.

3. We’ve invited people to put forward proposals on how to tackle these issues to our Citizens Pact
from Barcelona to Berlin, from the community allowance to a citizen’s initiative on the commons.
From social markets in Romania to “cooperativas integral” in Spain via commoning in New Cross,
young people are already exchanging their resources to help each other. This is why we’re
collaborating with Trade School to develop a pop-up skills exchange where people can learn how
to develop coops to facilitating consensus to mapping opportunities to develop new projects.
It’s why we’re hosting our festivals at two makerspaces at Lime Wharf and Makerversity. It’s why
we’re partnering with Borders to Cross to showcase practical experiments that push public, civic,
and market organizations to rethink the ways they relate to each other.
5 Oct at secret location - 12-13 Oct at Lime Wharf - 19-20 Oct at Somerset House
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