In march 2020, 120 students and their teachers from Kuben upper secondary school in Oslo took part in a 30-days change experiment, where they could choose something they wanted to change in their everyday life. They did so as part of their engagement in the SEAS project, where cChallenge is a central tool for participants to explore change and its implications across the personal, practical and political spheres. Just when they were half-way into their challenge, however, the global COVID-19 pandemic hit and changed everything. The students and teachers continued to hold their challenges, though, and made it through the 30 days, only in a way no one could have anticipated.
The 30 Days After podcast (in Norwegian) explores what happened from the perspective of its protagonists, the students. It is a conversation about how young people feel and see themselves as agents of change in a world that has already changed. How did the experiment go, what where the students' experiences, and what did they learn about change?
The 30 Days After podcast is led and produced by Victoria Emilie Støtvig Aanonsen and Cathrine Skutle, who study their Master in education at the University of Oslo.
