„Making“ for Sustainable Development – Forthcoming

„Making“ for Sustainable Development – Forthcoming

Digitalization increasingly affects both the professional and private environment and thus requires individual and self-regulated acquisition of competencies. At the same time, the advancing climate change and the resulting need for global action pose a real challenge. If we want to get young people more excited about science and technology as tools for sustainable development, interventions targeting the associated beliefs may provide a starting point. The maker culture with its diverse creative and sustainable application ideas for digital technologies and freely accessible Makerspaces provides great potential to disprove negative stereotypes. The planned project thus aims to investigate (1) what beliefs young people have about Making and (2) how these beliefs can be modified through intrinsic value interventions and thus increase the intention to engage in such activities.