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Future thoughts

What kind of thoughts do you have about the future?

That there will be quite a lot of all kinds of electric devices and all kinds of stuff, probably. Cars might be able to drive automatically without anyone driving. So, I guess soon everyone will be driving those then in the future.

Well, for example, that nice people won’t be entirely forgotten. And I hope that, like, wars would be forgotten, but not nice people.

I’ll become an architect. Yeah and I’m already thinking about Christmas.

Well if a hundred years ago they said there should be flying cars, but that won’t, you know… not really. Maybe in 150 years, maybe.

I’ve been thinking… if there are forests here at all, anymore. Because there are always some men here just cutting trees down.

I don’t know. I’d like to be a writer when I grow up.

Well probably something like that there will be some newer things here, and some things will have been renewed a lot you know, but then, like, the weather might be a little hotter.

I hope that it will be better than at the moment. There wouldn’t be any wars. Climate change would have been really, really improved. Forests would not be cut anymore. Animals would not be treated so badly anymore in the places they are treated badly at the moment, and life would be kind of better. I mean, nothing’s wrong with me, but that everyone would be a little bit better off. Everyone would get to go to school, and so on.

Well, I’ve at least thought that I’ll have a house of my own. And a job. And maybe even a car.

I wish we’d have made the climate change like smaller.

I don’t know really. Probably some work and other stuff.

When you think about the future, is there something that you are scared or worried about?

Well like that there will be a war here in Finland. Now at this moment there are wars coming like all the time.

That don’t do to others anything that you don’t want to be done to you. Well then it’s nice when they don’t use it. That’s how it is, and everyone emphasizes that all the time; so why don’t they do so then?

I don’t know, maybe climate change, if it changes terribly much.

Well no, except for the climate change. That worries me terribly. I mean, that’s not my problem, so to say. But then I’d kind of like to help with that. That’s why I always try to travel by car as little as possible, eat lots of vegetarian foods, Finnish products, and so on.

Well, maybe climate change. You know, if there will be so much pollution or something. And maybe like that you cannot swim in any sea anymore. Because they are completely full with blue-green algae.

Well, no.

Like, I don’t really think about them. They don’t really worry me like that. Because I don’t really bring them out into my life.

(excerpts from discussions with 8 to 11 years old art school students, autumn 2023)

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