In this episode of the AJ Climate Champions podcast, Pelsmakers argues that teaching values must be at the heart of architectural education. She believes students are bombarded with too much technical information on sustainability and that a strong grounding in architectural ethics is essential in order to apply technical knowledge for the best possible built environment and social equity outcomes. This approach, she argues, requires not only new curriculum content, but a shift from master-apprentice to more democratic and inclusive peer-to-peer learning.<\/p>\n
Pelsmakers has teamed with three colleagues to write a step-by-step guide to climate literate design for students which she shares with us in this episode. Equally useful for tutors and practitioners, the book is structured around 10 themes, ranging from global responsibility to energy, materials and \u2018delight\u2019. The book cites more than 200 case studies to accompany the themes, but deliberately does not include images to avoid a prescriptive aesthetic. Pelsmakers describes sustainable architecture as \u2018very contextual and very situated.\u2019<\/p>\n
To put your name in the prize draw to win a copy of Designing for the Climate Emergency<\/em>, send your name, postal address (UK addresses only) and affiliation to hattie.hartman@emap.com.<\/p>\n Sharing insights from having taught recently in seven different schools of architecture, structural engineer and educator C\u00edaran Malik notes that curriculum reform has not kept pace with students\u2019 demands for change and that retrofit remains a minority topic. Malik argues that once students develop an intuitive understanding, grounded in evidence, they can begin to experiment with results that are both \u2018beautiful and exciting\u2019.<\/p>\n To catch up on all AJ Climate Champions episodes,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Find Climate Champions on your favourite podcast app: subscribe via Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Google Podcasts<\/a>, Deezer<\/a>\u00a0and Podbean<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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