How to use the 10 themes

CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUNDAMENTALS

Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen

KEY READINGS 

• Designing for the climate emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., RIBA

HOW TO USE THE 10 THEMES

There are 10 climate emergency design themes around which the ARCH4CHANGE content is structured. These 10 themes reflect the different aspects to be considered in holistic sustainable architecture approaches. In practice, all of these themes must be met to high standards to create truly sustainable architecture in reality.  However, as a  student you do not need to know all the 10 themes in-depth from year 1. Instead, future and global responsibility, environment and people and community themes should always be included in each design project in each year of study. Each year, each student then works progressively towards including additional themes until all ten are included in your design project by the end of the studies