Symposiums

Symposiums [Session 1] June 2, 10:00-12:30: A Creative Policy for a Happy Youth
[Session 2] June 2, 14:00-17:00: Youth and Schools Making Creative Cities
[Session 3] June 3, 10:00-12:30: Social Enterprise Conference
What We Can Accomplish by Working Together—“Why Social Enterprise Now?”

[Session 1] June 2, 10:00-12:30: A Creative Policy for a Happy Youth

-Moderator: Lee Sam Youl (Professor, Yonsei University, Department of Public Administration)

-Presentations:
• David Istance (Senior Analyst, OECD/CERI): Schooling for Tomorrow and Innovative Learning Environments.
• Desmond Hui (Director, Hong Kong University Institute of Cultural Policy Research): Why Are Cities and Countries Around the World Turning to Creativity?
• Ahn Seung-mun (Visiting Researcher, Uppsala University): Youth Policy and Creative Education in Northern Europe.
• Joo Yong Tae (Director, Seoul Metropolitan Government Youth Division): A Vision for Seoul, City of Creative Culture, and Youth Policy.
• Ada Wong (Founder and the Principal, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity): The Flow of Creative Youth Policy in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong School of Creativity.

-Discussants
• Nancy Abelmann (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Anthropology)
• Kim Min (Professor, Soon Chun Hyang University, Department of Youth Education and Counseling)

We hesitate to use the word crisis; however, we cannot diagnose this situation as any other than a crisis when more than 50% of youth have contemplated suicide, more than 200,000 youth are addicted to the Internet, more than 30% of students sleep during class, annually 70,000 youth quit school, and annually the population of homeless youth is increasing day by day. The policymaking session of the 2009 Seoul Youth Creativity Summit Symposium will share good examples of creative youth policy in each country and take initiatives to cooperate and enhance creativity.

[Session 2] June 2, 14:00-17:00: Youth and Schools Making Creative Cities

-Moderator: Kim Hyun Mee (Professor, Yonsei University, Department of Cultural Anthropology)

-Keynote Address:
• Cho Hae-joang (Director of the haja Center and the Seoul Alternative Learning Community Network)

-Presentations:
• Bijaya K. Chhetri (College Student, Nepal’s 3Sisters Adventure Trekking Ltd.): Leadership Training for a Girl Trekker.
• Lee Bo-ra (Film Student, Korea National University of Arts): Rethinking ‘School’ on the Road: My Experiences as a Road Schooler
• Ahn Ji-sun (Freshman, Youngnak High School): The Learning that Starts in School Libraries.
• Olga Fagradian (Alumna and Instructor, Moscow International Film School): Learning Humanities through Practices and Voluntary Works
• M. J.One (Director & Alumna, haja Production School): Becoming a Creative Animator.
• Juha-Pekka Saarinen (Principal, Omnia Vocational College, Finland): Teaching skills, Learning lives in Omnia

-Discussants:
• Paek Hwahyun (Korean literature teacher at Bongwon Middle School)
• Chung Yonsoon (Korean Employment Information Service, Career Path Training Center Research Committee)

What kinds of learning can help youth take active responsibility as members of civil society with self-esteem, without experiencing the chaos and alienation that occurs when facing keywords such as the appearance of the digital generation, globalization, and the multicultural era? In the Omnia Vocational College in Finland, youth find the motives to save their own lives with social support; in other schools like the Moscow International Film School in Russia, they work hard for the growth of the next generation after the transition to a new social system; and then there is the HKICC in Hong Kong. In Korean society, specialized schools such as Ewoo High School and urban alternative schools like the haja Production School are realizing remarkable experiments. Public schools are also looking for their own creative methods. We want to look for solutions in the stories of teachers and youth who have made their own study paths, embracing innovation and creativity, and to plan for lifelong studies.

[Session 3] June 3, 10:00-12:30: Social Enterprise Conference
What We Can Accomplish by Working Together, Helping Each Other—“Why Social Enterprise Now?”

-Moderator: Yu Byung-Sun (Editorial Board, Kyunghyang Daily News, Author of Bonobo Revolution

-Presentations:
• Park Chan-Ung (Professor, Yonsei University, Department of Sociology): Society Makes an Alternative Market.
• Lucky Chhetri (Representing Nepal’s 3Sisters Adventure Trekking Ltd.): Himalaya Trekking to Support Women.
• Yang Hee-q (Principal, Geumsan Gandhi School): School, Village, and Social Enterprise.
• Atsuko Hattori (Representative, the Centre for Active Community): Japan’s Youth Unemployment Problem and Social Enterprise.
• Kim Jong Whee (Vice Director, haja Center): Korea’s Youth Unemployment Problem and Social Enterprise.

-Discussants:
• Lee Jae-woong (Senior, Social Venture Capital SOPOONG)
• Woo Seok-hun (Author of The 880 Thousand Won Generation)

People are facing a crisis of life now. This crisis is a serious problem that can’t be solved by job creation or by changing a industrial economy into a knowledge economy. It is a situation that reveals the fundamental weakness of human life. The life style we see as ‘natural’ or with ‘nothing left to do’ is facing a fundamental crisis. So far, the culture and manner of the life that we have maintained has accepted a selfish ‘winner takes all’ mentality as the logic of capitalism. Changes in our ideas and practices are needed. In Session 3, social enterprise specialists will deeply discuss the theme of ‘What We Can Accomplish by Working Together—“Why Social Enterprise Now?”’

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