This project was produced by Small House Productions in February 2014 with the support of the Olde Vechte Foundation. Financed by the Youth in Action Program and the Nederlands Jeugdinstituut.
gen-e-ra-tion - noun
a. A group of individuals born and living about the same time.
b. A group of generally contemporaneous individuals regarded as having common cultural or social characteristics and attitudes.
c. A stage or period of sequential technological development and innovation.
Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation is the youth nowadays, born in the early 1980s until the early 2000, and perhaps the most controversial generation so far.
We have been called the worst generation, the generation going no-where, generation frustration, the sleepless generation, yuppies, hippies, the death of the middle class and so on.
But how much of it is it fake and how much is it real? What does our generation actually want and how do we want to tell it? We are afterall the generation that broke the silence, the revolution generation, the generation willing to find a way in rapidly shifting contexts.
This project was designed to explore the shades of todays youth in a constantly changing society, bringing a (new) perspective on what it means to be part of Generation Y, by exploring the diversity, the challenges, the values that we want to bring and our vision for the future.