Climate Emergency Facts
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUNDAMENTALS
Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen
KEY READINGS
RIBA Climate Guide, mina Hasman, RIBA
Everything needs to Change: Architecture and the climate emergency. RIBA Design Studio Volume 1, Sofie Pelsmakers, Nick Newman. RIBA.
Designing for the climate emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., RIBA
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Ghosh, A, John Murray publishers,
IPCC WGII, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
Capitalocene and planetary justice, Who is responsible for the climate crisis?, Moore, Maize
Money-tecture…Or How Architecture Is Exploited by Capitalism, Mangold, W. ACSA 99th annual meeting Conference proceedings, ‘Where do you stand?’, edited by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Annie Cormier & Annie Pedret, 2010
Architecture after Architecture, Till, J., in Architects after Architecture Alternative Pathways for Practice, edited by Harriet Harriss , Edited by Rory Hyde, Edited by Roberta Marcaccio, Routledge
INSPIRATIONAL BUILT EXAMPLES
Architype, The Enterprise Centre, UK
Lendager Group, UN17, Village, Copenhagen, Denmark
Assemble Studio, Granby Four Streets, Liverpool, UK
Rozana Montiel, Common Unity, Mexico City, Mexico
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FACTS
This lecture gives a brief overview of the climate emergency and how we got here, how it relates to architecture and what a radical sustainable transition means. In 2022, the IPCC report stated that Architecture and planning is lagging behind all other sectors in climate action. Urgent action is needed before 2030 – the long lifespan of buildings / urban and land-use policies ‘lock in’ emissions and polluting development and behaviours for decades. Technology alone will not be enough: you need to go from exploitative values, mindsets and practices to new restorative values and be part of creating a new culture that rethinks what we do and the way we work. We have a collective responsibility to protect our planet and architecture - you are part of the solution, and no longer be part of the problem!