We are a student-led action group from Sheffield School of Architecture and Landscape campaigning for a greater emphasis on sustainability in our Built Environment education.

As the next generation of built environment professionals, we have the potential to enact real societal and cultural change within our future professions. Students need to adapt to the climate crisis, adopting a much more focused and educated agenda for sustainable design. We have both the potential and ability to incite real change within our industry, and as such within the current climatic crisis in general. We believe our education should be more implicit in providing us the tools to achieve this. We should leave education with the knowledge and skill set to apply truly sustainable and environmentally progressive thinking within all future work, both for the benefit of our professions, but more importantly, for the future of our ecosystems, urban and natural landscapes, and all that inhabit them.

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Recent Events

For our full list of future and past events, go to our Events page!

Sheffield Hallam Campus Site Visit

with SSoA, BDP and bam

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Camellia House Site Visit

with Donald Insall Associates and Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust

Click here to see photos from the day!

Architecture is Climate Website Launch

with MOULD research collective

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Upcoming Events

Our Values

Recognition

The SSoAL must recognise the severity and urgency of the current climate emergency we face. The school must also acknowledge their role in the education of its students to work within this future context.

2. Action

Action must follow recognition. Cultural and behavioural change is required at both the institutional and individual levels. The SSoAL, students and staff must acknowledge and be honest about the individual impact of our daily practices within the school as well as our personal lives. We should work together in a communal act and not in conflict with each other. The issue of climate change is better addressed collectively, not individually.

3. Education

Education is a powerful and vital tool in the fight against climate change. SSoAL should ensure all students leave their education with the knowledge and tools to produce truly sustainable and environmentally focused designs. Sustainability must be less of a specialism, but an element of our everyday work. Students should have the tools to advocate for greater urgency in the climate crisis which can be used in future years of practice.

4. Intersectionality

We must adopt an intersectional approach to addressing climate change and acknowledge that the threats of ecological breakdown vary in intensity depending on class, race, gender and geography. We must also recognize the benefits of creating an open and non-discriminatory space in which to come together in a collective endeavour to lessen our environmental impacts as a society, a school and as individuals.

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