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!

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