We are forming the founding network now — coordinators, translators, drawing coders and teacher champions who carry the project in their own country, region or language.
Answering the question at the centre of this project — do children everywhere imagine the same emptied-out future? — takes many classrooms, in many places and languages. That is more than one person can reach. This is where you come in.
The human face of the project where you are. You find schools, support the teachers, and make sure every classroom follows the same care for children.
A few hours a monthTranslate and culturally adapt the materials into your language, so the prompt and the questions mean the same thing they mean everywhere else.
One-off, then occasionalHelp analyse the drawings using the shared coding scheme, so results stay consistent and comparable as the project grows across countries.
Flexible, in batchesA teacher who has run the activity and helps bring in nearby schools. The simplest way in — and often where a regional coordinator starts.
An hour, then word of mouthThis is a volunteer network for now, and it is mission-driven work — but joining a founding effort should give you something real, and it does: named recognition in the project, the possibility of co-authorship on the resulting publications, a say in how the study is run in your region, and a commitment to share resources as funding grows.
This project works with children, so the people who represent it carry a real responsibility. Joining is not an instant sign-up: we read every application, and coordinators are people we can identify and be accountable for. Everyone in the network agrees to the same safeguarding standard — anonymity, voluntary participation, head-teacher approval, and no public sharing of a child's work without a guardian's permission.
Tell us who you are, where you are, and which role fits — by email, with a couple of paragraphs. We read everything and reply. For coordinator roles we will arrange a short call to get to know you. There is no deadline; the network grows as the right people find it.