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The climate is changing in threateningly irreversible ways; the world is witnessing intense wars and generous atrocities: ethnic cleansing, genocides, violence against people of colour, caste and gender-based brutalities, and an overall, utter disregard for our planetary well-being. Who gets to be held liable for it all? Who will pay this mounting debt?

The Debt Of Hope/The Duty of Design

More than anyone, this massive burden's repercussions anguish the forthcoming generations: condemned for decisions one didn’t make while being unfairly pressurised to fix this mess. Instead of paying forward, the adults of tomorrow are being forced to pay backwards; where does that leave our creative contemporaries in their duty to design and restore the world to health, knowing that we owe our young their youth?

“How dare we look to young people for hope?” asks Katie Treggiden, as she conveys a sense of despair masked in the student-led solutions at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate Show; CEO of the Danish Architecture Center, Kent Martinussen revisits the BLOX's inclusive architecture, hoping to politicise its ethos into a movement among masses.

Debt and duty have roots in the same Latin word debitum, yet convey different meanings. How must we dissent, deregulate, accommodate, and re-build in our creative capacity, to evince a legacy of owning offences, valuing interdependence that offers emancipation? How do we pay the price of keeping hope alive?

Amit Gupta

Kent Martinussen recalls the democratic values of the stacked BLOX building in Denmark
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Reflect

The lighting trade show

LiGHT23

With an extended exhibition space and new features, the event will showcase the best of decorative and architectural lighting.

21-22 NOV, 2023
LiGHT23

Date

21-22 NOV, 2023

LOCATION

London, United Kingdom

CONTACT

[email protected]

Highlights include the [d]arc thoughts talks programme and the LiGHT Work—providing designers with a place to catch up on emails, carry out office tasks, or have one-to-one meetings. The talks and presentations will focus on trends within lighting.

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NEWS

Sculptures by Jamie Harris are a fluid 'Infusion’ of colour and light in glass

Sculptures by Jamie Harris are a fluid 'Infusion’ of colour and light in glass

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Ben Storms's designs verge on the impossible and rethink materiality

Ben Storms's designs verge on the impossible and rethink materiality

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How dare we look to the young for hope?

The Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate Show was a cry for help rather than an optimistic vision of the future.

07 MIN READ

Katie Treggiden

How dare we look to the young for hope?

Grown-ups must offer real alternatives and provide young designers with hope, rather than looking to them to fix the messes we have made.

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