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What are the characteristics of Sustainability that we look for in Live Learning opportunities and examples?
Sustainability is at the heart of Liveness, and is often addressed in overt, tangible ways, through core project goals. It can also be a thread that is woven into the project but is not always immediately apparent. Live learning often provides opportunities for partners to define what sustainability means to them, given the specific situation that they operate in.
Key Themes and Questions:
Addressing the Climate Emergency
Live learning creates opportunities for students to work directly with organisations and groups to address the ongoing climate emergency. Through collaboration, a range of different strategies can be explored to:
reduce carbon and move towards a zero carbon future
improve circular processes and move to a circular architecture economy (designing out waste)
creating projects that are regenerative - moving away from making less harm, to making a positive impact on people and the environment.
Climate emergency: "The world is in a climate emergency – “a code red for humanity” according to the UN Secretary-General. The concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere is wreaking havoc across the world and threatening lives, economies, health and food."
Forming responses that are specific to people and place
Sustainability traditionally aims to balance societal, environmental and economic needs. Working with particular community and interest groups, in their particular place, provides the basis for developing bespoke approaches to achieving sustainable projects. The relationships that live learning fosters between partners is also founded on mutual respect and a willingness to support mutual learning.
In order for Live learning to enable responses that are appropriate they also need to consider the scale of creative spatial intervention, from a boardgame to a regional strategy!
People and Place-specific design: "Our buildings and spaces bring people together and must cater for many different uses and needs. Whether community centres, places of worship, schools, or any other public-facing building or open space, their design must respond to diverse interests and to the ever changing circumstances of the people and communities around them."
Tips for your community engagement strategy, Sophia De Sousa
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