Future Is Us – City Arc

Voices Across Borders

An Unfolding Story

What makes us good citizens?
Is it certainty — the rules, the rights, the systems?
Or is it uncertainty — the courage to listen, to cross invisible lines, to belong?

This question rises again and again —
in the silences of children,
in their courage,
in their dreams.

City Arc: Voices Across Borders

City Arc: Voices Across Borders is a series of conversations where students step across lines of privilege, ability, and identity to reimagine the city — and themselves. It grows like a living story:

The Call to Listen

What does it mean to carry privilege in a divided city?

"Why do some streets feel like they're not for us?" — a student

The Call to Listen
Bridging Difference

Bridging Difference

Listening to those who cannot see reveals how much we ourselves overlook.

To listen to those who cannot see is to realise how much we ourselves don't see.

Youth as Citizens

When students from different worlds sit on the same ground, equality becomes lived.

When students from different worlds sit on the same ground, EQUALITY becomes lived.

Youth as Citizens
Borders of Suffering

Borders of Suffering

At a hospital, a child once told us: "When I grow up, I just want to play without pain."

In spaces of vulnerability, we learn what truly matters.

Dreams Beyond Walls

Every dream deserves a doorway.

Dreams are the seed. Dignity, curiosity, and belief in possibilities are the roots.

Dreams Beyond Walls

The Shared Table

When all voices sit together, BELONGING begins.

When all these voices finally sit together, belonging begins.

The Shared Table

A city is not only made of buildings.
It is made of voices. Of encounters.
Of fragile and fearless connections.

In a world where exclusion runs deep, children need spaces where they can listen, learn, and still dare to dream.

That is the promise of City Arc:
to help every child feel they belong to the city they will inherit.

Join us in building FIU-City Arc

Join Us in Building This

We welcome educators, institutions, and partners in social impact to join us — to co-create modules, to expand access — to bring more voices to this shared table.

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