Sustainable Development

FUTURE AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY

Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen

KEY READINGS 

• UN Sustainable Development Goals, https://sdgs.un.org/goals

• Activism is a way to build small utopias, Koskinen, A., Milian-Bernal, D., Pelsmakers, S., ARK Magazine

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

INSPIRATIONAL BUILT EXAMPLES

• Lendager Group, UN17, Village, Copenhagen, Denmark

• The Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

• Eco-Viikki, Helsinki, Finland

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The United Nations established 17 interconnected Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to underpin sustainable development with the idea to protect the planet, end poverty and ensure people can enjoy peace and prosperity. All 17 goals are relevant to your architecture project, and in your project you must ensure that you understand their interconnections and relevance to your project and how you can use the goals to understand your responsibility as an architect. At the same time also be aware that the UN SDGS are still based on operating within the current socio-economic growth principles. Instead, the goal of the economy (or human activity in general) should not be to grow but to thrive within planetary boundaries. Your project should explore how we can thrive within our planetary boundaries.