The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Committee on Regenerative Environments is calling on the country's architects to join architects from around the world in formally committing "urgent and sustained" climate action.
The call makes Canadian architects the latest group to take up the climate call, a growing movement that seeks to instill a sense of immediate action on issues relating to sustainability and climate justice through the work architects take on and the role designers play within communities and in business.
The pledge calls on architects to "design for holistic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and advocate for investments in a rapid transition to resilient climate-positive alternatives," for example. It also pushes them to "adopt regenerative design principles and practices to build the necessary capability to design and develop projects and environments that go beyond the standard of net zero in use."
The call also embraces a structural change approach by compelling architects to not only advocate for rapid systemic changes in society to address climate and ecological collapse, but to also fight for "the policies, funding priorities, and implementation frameworks that support" these reforms.
British architects and educatorseducatorseducators recently issued similar pledges, as did Australian architects. The American Institute of Architects also recently adopted its Resolution for Urgent and Sustained Climate Action that issues a similar call to action for its members.
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AIA wants an in on it too.
Nice ideas, but the client pays the bills and few of them care to the extent this implies.
if i'm designing dormitories for shift workers in the oil sands or tundra mines who just fly in on chartered flights from toronto every week can i get an exemption? since it's basically temporary housing, teardown when the mine runs empty.
or should i just let the engineers design it and stay out of it?
wake me up when they discover a poutine mine.
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