Today, sustainability and climate focus within the built environment sector, are still treated as a specialism, an optional sort of added-on element. Base level knowledge around these core topics must be mainstream, in order to effectively and meaningfully address the climate emergency.
In TIME Magazine’s ‘Climate is Everything’ issue, Ciara Nugent talks about the unexpected ways climate change is reshaping college education. She provides an overview of the disruptive thinking, initiatives (including the Climate Framework) and efforts that lead and direct this agenda across the global built environment-focused education.
“In the U.K., engineering and architecture industry bodies are working with the Climate Framework initiative to develop climate requirements for their schools. Mina Hasman, the initiative’s leader, helped RIBA to set its new rules”, defining the base level knowledge for sustainability and climate change that every built environment actor (whether in academia or in practice) should be equipped with.
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