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?

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?