Manifestos on the Climate Crisis
To mark the first anniversary of Canada?s Architects Declare initiative, we?re publishing the original text of the declaration, signed by over 200 practices. We are also printing a climate statement issued by KPMB LAB?the firm?s research group?to highlight how individual firms are bringing this issue to their work and clients. Finally, a text by recent graduate Jessica Piper, which was selected in a Call for Manifestos by the Canadian Architecture Forums on Education, points to emerging practitioners? perception of the urgency of the climate crisis.
Canadian Architectural Professionals Declare Planetary Health Emergency and Commit to Urgent and Sustained Action
Our interconnected crises of climate breakdown, ecological degradation, and societal inequity are the most serious issues of our time. The design, construction, and operation of our built environment accounts for nearly 40 percent of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and pervasively impacts our societies and the health of the living systems that sustain us. Building to support the intergenerational health of our communities and living systems will require rapid paradigm shifts in thought and action for everyone working in the design, construction, and procurement of our built environments. Together with our clients, collaborators, and communities, we need to develop our buildings, cities, and infrastructures as indivisible components of larger nested living systems?interconnected, resilient, and rege...
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