Soft Spaces: Dug-out

For the past three months, eleven young people drawn from the network of the youth support organization PowerUp073 have been working on a Soft Space of their own with the fashion designer Baby Reni. Their conversations have focused on issues of image and identity, raising questions such as ‘how am I perceived by others and what prejudices do I encounter?’ and ‘who am I when I can authentically be myself, free of outside scrutiny?’ In this way, topics like neurodiversity, sexism, racism, identity, gender and mental health have been given a place in the soft space that the young people have shaped together. The participants set themselves a clear goal: to make other young people feel seen and to create a place where they can be acknowledged.