Attunement across generations through design

In our classes, we approached intergenerational fairness not as a fixed principle to be implemented, but as a condition shaped through relation, friction, and situated inquiry. Policy often reduces complexity into metrics and solutions that are legible to institutions but insufficient for those most affected. Our design-led methodology instead invited students to begin from their own entanglements, positionalities, and urgencies, treating knowledge as partial and distributed, and staying with contradiction rather than erasing it.

Through this approach, students developed projects that surfaced overlooked perspectives and forms of life, materialising complexity in sound, text, installation, and speculative prototypes. Rather than providing solutions, the work opened spaces for resonance and the subtle alignments that emerge when contradiction is held, not resolved. The studio was thus less about producing specific policy answers and more about cultivating collective practices of attunement, care, and response, offering new ways of imagining fairness across generations from which policy may emerge.