The key global challenges grouped together in this category concern our relationship with the planet that supports us. With limited natural resources, an increasingly urbanised and ever-growing population, and the looming threat of irreversible climate change, the need to reconsider the way we interact with our environment has never been more pressing. Paramount to this is the acknowledgement that we are a part of the global ecosystem and not its rulers.
The key global challenges grouped together in this category are concerned with ensuring that people across the world can lead healthy and fulfilled lives. This involves embracing the diversity of human traits and capabilities, and acknowledging that we are all equal and yet distinct.
The key global challenges grouped together in this category are concerned with the organisation of human societies and the relationships between them. This involves fair and peaceful exchange, and an equitable distribution of costs and benefits in the creation of global welfare.
Our ancestors often created houses that were beautiful, regionally adapted and built to last - despite their 'poverty'. In contrast, modern housing is often soulless, mass produced, inadequate, poorly insulated. Many modern buildings will last no more than a generation.
How can best practice in architecture become normal practice? How can we create new frameworks for building affordable, healthy, beautiful and energy efficient housing? Shouldn't the poor have a right to good and beautiful housing? How can we assure that citizens become actively involved in shaping the built environment in their neighbourhoods? How can citizen participation and responsibility be supported?