Intergenerational Relations in Places of Abandonment and Renewal Across Europe
Austria | Germany | Romania | UK
Waste / Land / Futures is funded by Volkswagen Stiftung and will run between 2024 and 2028.
The project examines how intergenerational relations are changing in places that have been ‘abandoned’ by industry and are now undergoing renewal processes across Europe. It seeks to understand how differing generations tell stories about the past and present and imagine the future of their communities across four different locations in Europe.
The project creates space for local communities to share their stories and experiences, both past and present, about the place they live.
Creative workshops will enable people to collaborate across generations to co-create intergenerational, future-oriented utopias through practices like art-making, crafting, or creative writing. This process aims to give those usually excluded from speculation about the future a stake in it.
Our intention is to transform binary and problem-oriented understandings of intergenerational relationships and demographic change, to create imaginative and utopian narratives of how we could live and age otherwise, incorporating environmental and material perspectives.
