Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency

1. Setting the scene: architectural thinking in a time of climate emergency

James Benedict Brown and Sofie Pelsmakers

PART 1: Architectural philosophies to address the climate emergency: injustice, circularity, radical inclusivity, spatial insurgence

2. Architects and climate justice

Jonathon Taylor, Salla Jokela, Markus Laine and Lauren Ferguson

3. The new aesthetics of circular architecture

Antti Lehto and Sanna Lehtinen

4. Who do we create architecture for, and why?

Mirjami Myllymäki, Sofie Pelsmakers and Laura Uimonen

5. Enacted utopias: learning from insurgent spatial practices

Dalia Milián Bernal, Mikko Kyrönviita, Elina Alatalo and Veera Turku

PART 2: Architectural pedagogies to address the climate emergency: creaturely pedagogy, collaboration and communities of equity, empathy and interdisciplinarity

6. Everyday, equity and ease

Felicity Atekpe

7. Responding to embodied injustices: introducing critical thinking and empathy in architectural education

Essi Nisonen, Jenni Poutanen and Sofie Pelsmakers

8. Changing cultures: sustainability in architectural education and design teaching

David Kroll, Susan Galavan and Veronica Soebarto

9. Preparing architects to serve as change agents

Jan Hugo, Anika van Aswegen, Carin Combrinck, Dayle Shand and Chrisna du Plessis

10. Changing paradigms: educating for the climate emergency

Elizabeth Donovan

PART 3: Architectural practices to address the climate emergency: justice, interdisciplinarity, co-design, decolonisation

11. Planning for climate justice: digital mapping as an interdisciplinary tool for alleviating inequalities

Cara Mulholland, Jenny Hughes and Flora Samuel

12. Decolonising resilient architecture

Pieta McAleer-Harding, Mercia Abbott, Rebecca Kiddle and Maibritt Pedersen Zari

13. Situating the concept of sustainable design in Africa

Ng’eno Chelang’at Faith

14. Boundaries and bonds in a boundless world: the relationship of place and community to landscape

Maria Vidali

15. An architecture of paying attention: scenarios for rehearsing climate futures otherwise

Renata Tyszczuk

Biography

Sofie Pelsmakers (she/her) is Professor of Sustainable Housing Design at Tampere University, Finland. She is a chartered architect (UK), author of several books and has dedicated the past two decades to teaching, designing and researching sustainable architecture. She brings experience from Denmark (the Aarhus School of Architecture) and the UK (Sheffield School of Architecture, The Bartlett, University of East London). Her collaborative work connects research, teaching and practice for the training of the architects of the future.

James Benedict Brown is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Umea University in Sweden. He teaches architectural history and theory and researches the relationship between architectural education, practice, values and materials.