Stemmen voor de Toekomst

For the past few years, Tolhuistuin has been organising the ‘Voting for the Future’ project around the elections. We do this in cooperation with secondary schools.

Via a specially developed teaching package, secondary schools pay attention to the elections. Pupils discuss concerns, wishes and dreams for their future at school. Based on this, the pupils formulate a wish: ‘I want that in 10 years that ... ’ They ask people they know who are allowed to vote to vote for their future.
Prior to the elections Is an expo with the dreams, wishes and concerns of pupils on large boards at the entrance of Tolhuistuin on the IJ side.

On election day, anyone who goes to vote at the polling station in Tolhuistuin can be inspired by the high school students' voting cards and let them know whose wish they will factor into their vote.

Voting for the Future is an effective way to stimulate conversation about politics and society in school and outside school for a target group for whom politics is often a distant memory. The people with whom the pupils engage in conversation and whom we reach via the exhibition at the polling station are stimulated to consider the longer-term perspective in their voting behaviour.

Concept & design: Tolhuistuin, secondary school teachers, Dolly Warhol.

Do you participate or want more information? Send an e-mail to info@tolhuistuin.nl with ref. ‘Vote for the Future’.