Paper short abstract:

This paper explores the role of contemporary hunter-gatherer youth in using multimodal methods to co-create knowledge and reflect on their ongoing process of "Becoming."

Paper long abstract:

Every contemporary hunter-gatherer community faces the same challenge: a rapidly changing world that profoundly disrupts their survival system of "Becoming." This research aims to highlight the role of the Orang Rimba youth in using multimodal methods to assess their experiences in complex situations. Ultimately, the study evaluates how this approach contributes to co-creating knowledge. The research was undertaken for 18 months, during which multimodal methods were used, and it ended with a stop-motion workshop. Co-creation activities offer a broad space for independent leadership to shape their stories into short animations and then brought to discussions. I documented these processes as a vital part of my research.

The focus is on analyzing the stop-motion creation process and the agency of children and youth within it, as well as to what extent this approach allows them to be co-researchers of their own community. The study also determines whether these cultural and technological factors contribute to collective understanding and co-production of knowledge.