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I think the hardest thing for young architects (and others) facing climate is to cultivate new aspirations. Most come in with ambition to be a design star, we have to encourage, instead, a collective force for radical social transformation. #climatechangedarchitecture
one issue is a lack of shared terms/concepts. I am often jealous of colleagues in sociology, anthropology who not only (it seems) have shared conceptual framework, but also develop neologisms to keep things focused
(plus decades of theory-laden self justification of architecture's 'autonomy' or 'objectness')
I've been trying to develop terms and concepts that aim to bring architects into the urgent climate discussion- a transitional vocabulary. a few below:
emergency exit - how is urgent egress built into our social patterns and practices? it, is indeed, at the core of our economic and social mores- a hedge, a risk analysis, that allows for excess. Are architects not well skilled in these means and methods? https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/284030/emergency-exit/
stranded assets - most icons of modernism are a energetic mess (Seagrams tower is the icon here). Our models no longer serve us. What to do with buildings that won't be occupiable after carbon, how does it change our history? https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/stranded-assets-daniel-barber/e/10.4324/9780429279904-34 see also recent perspecta
thermal practice -architects job is to produce a non-carbon thermal interiors, according to reversing centuries of inequitably distributed 'comfort'. And people can live differently inside these spaces... more on this soon https://www.academia.edu/41500329/After_Comfort
Design for discomfort.
