Waste/Land/Futures: intergenerational relations in places of abandonment and renewal across Europe.

The aim of the project is to research how intergenerational relations are changing in places that have experienced abandonment and renewal across Europe. We will develop intergenerational, future-oriented utopias that allow those who are usually excluded from speculation about the future to have 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. This is reflected in our theoretical and methodological frameworks, which foreground how the intertwined relational, temporal and socio-material processes of intergenerational pasts, presents and futures play out in four communities across Europe.