What happened at dareCon?

How do you imagine your future? That was the central question during dareCon! Together with the organisations “ Jugend hackt ”, " IMAGINARY - open mathematics ", " Glocal Films ", the artists Beldan Sezen and Susanne Heincke students worked on their future projects in various digital workshops and gave their generation a voice. They advanced their visual storytelling skills or practiced coding future spaces in VR. Others experimented with AI and discussed opportunities and risks of this new technology. The participating students took an active part in the program by sharing their engagement in digital Ted Talks, panel discussions or social media stories.

Important things to know

Please find below program with times for your specific time zone: dareCon Program Australia (PDF, 351 KB) dareCon Program Germany (PDF, 351 KB) dareCon Program Myanmar (PDF, 351 KB) darecon Program New Zealand (PDF, 351 KB) dareCon Program Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines (PDF, 351 KB) dareCon Program Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia (PDF, 351 KB)

Goethe-Institut New Zealand

How do you imagine your future? Young people from ten countries discussed this question during dareCon!. With the help of digital media they gave their generation a voice.

dareCon! took place from Friday, 23 April to Sunday, 25 April 2021 and was 100% digital. Students from Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia participated at dareCon!.

dare to shape your future!

To dare something, that's what it's all about! At the convention, young people discussed how they imagine their future – and what they have to dare to make this future happen.

Apply for Darecon!

Six young people from each country can participate at dareCon!. Click on your country to find out how you can apply and when the application deadline is.

New Zealand

Partner

Jugend hackt is a programme to promote young programmers. Improving the world with code: that is their goal. Young people work on prototypes, digital tools and concepts for their vision of a better society. Jugend hackt is a program of the Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V. and mediale pfade.org e.V.

IMAGINARY is a non-profit organization for open and interactive mathematics. IMAGINARY was initiated at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, an institute of the Leibniz Association.

Beldan Sezen is an artist and writer whose work includes graphic novels, artists’ books, drawings, essays, and installations. She is a curator of artists’ books and the editor and co-publisher of Cypher, a digital comics magazine that brings audiences into the radical lives and dangerous work of human rights defenders around the world. Her work is part of special collections in institutional and public libraries.

Kerstin Rickermann is one of the founders of Glocal Films, a German film and media organisation based in London. The Glocal Films team conceptualizes and facilitates film projects with participatory approach in the educational and cultural sector worldwide. Susanne Heincke is an artist and photographer. She is leading projects in the field of art, culture and culture education internationally, in museums, schools and higher education.

Get in touch!

Judith Geare

Tel.: +64 4 3856924
Mob: 021825667
judith.geare@goethe.de