Collaborative project / participatory action in public space
2024

In the Passport project young people of Narva, Estonia not only created their own passports but also planned a participatory action at the Estonian-russian border checkpoint.

Over one-month period youths were reflecting on the institutional violence ingrained in passports to define individuals and assign identities. To question this, the participants created their own passports.

Further, we planned a public action at the border checkpoint and registered it with the local police. Young people engaged in dialogue people crossing the border to or from russia to talk to them about an individual freedom, an obligation to challenge injustice and a political will (questions discussed during the exchanges). Respondents also received a “Passport of a Human.”