Intergenerational Fairness is a pressing and complex societal issue, raising questions about responsibility, sustainability, and equity across generations. It challenges us to consider how today’s decisions not only influence the present but will also shape the lives of those who come after us.

Each year, from March to June, first-year students from all five departments of the Master’s program at Design Academy Eindhoven explore a theme through a trimester-long, collaborative research project. This years project, ‘What does an intergenerational fair society look like’ is developed in partnership with the EU Policy Lab of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, giving students’ design research a wider policy framework.

Working in groups and guided by four dedicated mentors, students investigated different dimensions of Intergenerational Fairness - ranging from slow violence, intergenerational wealth, embracing complexity and shifting societal structures.

Guided by four mentors, each research group was able to work on a different theme within Transgenerational Fairness. Below an overview of the student work.