Architecture after Architecture: spatial practice in the face of the climate emergency
Lead Research Organisation:
University of the Arts London
Department Name: Central Saint Martin's College
Abstract
'Architecture after Architecture' investigates the way in which the architectural profession, and other practitioners working in the field of the built environment, might operate in the face of the climate emergency. Living with climate emergency demands systemic change to our economies, behaviours and social structures - all of which have profound implications for approaches to our built environment. Where most research concerning architecture and the environment concentrates on technical and material responses, mainly relating to carbon reduction, this project looks at the cultural and economic contexts of the climate emergency, and the implications these have for spatial practice (a term that designates multiple ways of operating in the production of the built and natural environment). It investigates in particular the urgent need to reconsider assumptions of growth, extraction and progress on which orthodox economics is based - and which the modern project of architecture both signalled and was founded on. The aim of the project is to investigate what happens to architecture after some of those principles are challenged by the demands arising from the climate emergency.
The 'Architecture after Architecture' project is led by a UK-German team of architects and academics based in Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) and the Technische Universität Braunschweig, collaborating internationally with economists, sociologists, designers, artists, writers and journalists to imagine the future of spatial practices. It starts with cultural, economic and political discourses around the climate emergency as they relate to spatial practice. It will also gather evidence from contemporary spatial practice to analyse approaches that might be relevant to facing it. Because climate impacts on wider societal contexts, the project will also explore non-spatial conditions, such as those outlined in the various versions of the Green New Deal (GND). The final stage of the project takes these analyses, and projects future scenarios into which new forms of spatial practice are placed. It asks the questions: What are the spatial implications of the systemic changes arising from the climate emergency, and what role may architects and spatial agents play in the envisioning and co-design of these spatial conditions?
The primary objective of the project is to develop scenarios for new forms of spatial practice in the context of the climate emergency. These will have broad relevance to architects and other professionals (planners, geographers, policy makers) working in spatial production, built, natural and social. It will achieve this through employing innovative methods of research, including through scenario-building workshops with multi-disciplinary groups. It will also build an open-access database of 100 international examples of how practitioners are using various approaches in the face of the climate emergency.
The 'Architecture after Architecture' project is led by a UK-German team of architects and academics based in Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) and the Technische Universität Braunschweig, collaborating internationally with economists, sociologists, designers, artists, writers and journalists to imagine the future of spatial practices. It starts with cultural, economic and political discourses around the climate emergency as they relate to spatial practice. It will also gather evidence from contemporary spatial practice to analyse approaches that might be relevant to facing it. Because climate impacts on wider societal contexts, the project will also explore non-spatial conditions, such as those outlined in the various versions of the Green New Deal (GND). The final stage of the project takes these analyses, and projects future scenarios into which new forms of spatial practice are placed. It asks the questions: What are the spatial implications of the systemic changes arising from the climate emergency, and what role may architects and spatial agents play in the envisioning and co-design of these spatial conditions?
The primary objective of the project is to develop scenarios for new forms of spatial practice in the context of the climate emergency. These will have broad relevance to architects and other professionals (planners, geographers, policy makers) working in spatial production, built, natural and social. It will achieve this through employing innovative methods of research, including through scenario-building workshops with multi-disciplinary groups. It will also build an open-access database of 100 international examples of how practitioners are using various approaches in the face of the climate emergency.
Publications
Bovelett S
(2023)
Provocation as Care
in KoozArch
Bovelett S
(2022)
MOULD 021
D'Angelo M
(2023)
Breaking the Mould
in Architect
MOULD
(2021)
Architecture after Architecture: A conversation with MOULD
in PLAT
Powis A
(2022)
EXTRACTION
Powis A
(2022)
CLIMATE
Powis A
(2025)
Architecture is Climate
Powis A
(2024)
More Than Words: MOULD and APLO at the IABR
in KoozArch
Powis A
(2023)
The Laboratory of the Future
Powis A
(2022)
EXTRACTION
| Title | Architecture is Climate: Exhibition and Residency |
| Description | Architecture is Climate was a two-week exhibition and residency at the Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross, which is attached to Central Saint Martins. It was organised by members of MOULD, the research collective made up of the AHRC project contributors. MOULD invited four other collectives to occupy the exhibition space for two days, and to organise events. The exhibition announcement read: Architecture is Climate is a programme of residencies in the Lethaby Gallery by architecture research collective MOULD in collaboration with Soft Agency, Climate and Cities, Anthropocene Architecture School and Civic Square. It begins by tracing architecture's relationship with the causes of climate breakdown. In particular, it argues that architecture needs to address its reliance on extractivist practices that propel climate breakdown. An evolving programme of interventions and workshops, propose ways in which architecture might become part of the wider systemic change that puts climate first. Architecture is Climate invites you to be part of reimagining spatial practices by focusing on positive change, that can happen from within cracks in the present system. A reorientation of architecture can have radical potential in reformulating social and spatial configurations to better serve climate justice. To say that architecture is climate means that other possible architectures are also other possible climates. Overall, we hosted 34 separate events in the two-week period, bringing in a broad external audience (the two ticketed evening events were sold out). The exhibition was presented as a work in progress, documenting the process and provisional outcomes of the research, in order to explain the methods and concepts that were used. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The exhibition reached both internal and external audiences. Internally, members of MOULD gave guided tours to students at Central Saint Martins from across a range of programmes. Externally the events and exhibitions reached diverse audiences, with each of the five collectives bringing in their own constituency. Many of the attendees talked of how much they had gleaned from the exhibition/event. One result was that MOULD were invited to bring part of the exhibition to the 2023 Architecture Fringe in Scotland. |
| URL | https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/whats-on-at-csm/lethaby-gallery/architecture-i... |
| Title | COP26 Posters |
| Description | A series of posters produced for COP26 |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Posters were initially displayed during a parade through London as part of UAL's Carnival of Crisis. They were subsequently deposited in the CSM museum, where they are being used as teaching materials. |
| URL | http://mould.earth/mld006-9 |
| Title | Chronograms of Architecture |
| Description | The research collective MOULD (which was formed for the research project Architecture after Architecture, and was constituted of all the main researchers on the project) was invited to exhibit at the Architectural Association as part of the 'Chronograms of Architecture' exhibition, along with five other international collectives. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The AA (Architectural Association) is internationally recognised as a influential architectural institution. Their public programme, including this exhibition, reaches a wide audience. |
| URL | https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/chronograms-of-architecture-exhibition |
| Title | Chronograms of Architecture: CIVA Brussels |
| Description | The research collective MOULD were invited to exhibit their work at CIVA Brussels as part of their 'Chronograms of Architecture' exhibition in April 2025. MOULD presented their work as an large embroidery. CIVA, Centre for Information, Documentation and Exhibitions on the city, architecture, landscape and urban planning in the Brussels-Capital Region, is a museum, archive and collections centre, library, meeting and mediation place and forum for discussion on architecture, landscape, urban planning and ecosystems. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | CIVA is the main centre for architectural culture in Belgium. Their exhibitions reach a wide audience. |
| Title | International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam |
| Description | Members of the research team, under the collective name MOULD, were invited to participate in the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, one the most prestigious international architectural exhibitions. The exhibit is based on the research outcomes of the Architecture after Architecture project. It consisted of two large (4m x 3.6m) embroidered panels which together formed an installation. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The installation 'Architecture is Climate' was placed at the entrance of the exhibition and was the first thing that visitors encountered. Jeremy Till was invited to do the first keynote for the Opening Symposium of the exhibition. |
| URL | https://iabr.nl/en/biennales/nature-of-hope-2024 |
| Description | The grant finished in December 2023, but the research team are still active in completing outputs and taking up invitations to disseminate the findings. A book is due to be published in late 2024, but the main website (a key research output) is now live. We can report back progress against the stated objective as follows: To develop scenarios for new forms of spatial practice in the context of the climate emergency. These will have broad relevance to architects and other professionals (planners, geographers, policy makers) working in spatial production - built, natural and social. This work is complete and best represented on the website which shows how to work through the past, present and future of architecture in the face of climate breakdown. The website provides a set of prompts for spatial practitioners to develop their own approaches, informed by a set of exemplary practices and critical readings of the constitution of climate breakdown in relation to architecture. To develop tools, narratives and approaches that spatial practitioners might deploy in the face of the climate emergency These approaches are incorporated in the website, which provides clear guidelines as to how principles of a reimagined architecture might be applied to practitioners' own work.In particular, the research points to the need for architects and other practitioners to address the causes of climate breakdown rather than just to pick off symptoms in a solutionist manner. To collect global examples of both spatial and non-spatial approaches to facing the climate emergency and the conditions it invokes, particularly in relation to economic systems. This work is now complete with over 120 examples now collected, documented and incorporated on the website. Each example is described through a 500-1000 fully referenced text. Each example is also cross-referred to the issues that it is addressing, and also linked back from the prompts for future action. In this way the practice section of the website refers back to past conditions and issues as well as forward to potential futures. To analyse the cultural, economic and social constitution of the climate emergency in relation to spatial production, and draw conclusions for spatial practice from this analysis. This work is now complete, and is most clearly documented in the diagram that we were commissioned to produce as part of the Jencks Foundation/eflux Chronograms of Architecture project. This work was the basis of our invitation to exhibit at the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale where the ideas will be further developed. The constitution of climate breakdown in relation to the architecture is also fully covered and described in the 'FOUNDATIONS' section of the website through extensive entries. To develop and record innovative forms of speculative and projective research, which engage with, and imagine, socio-spatial scenarios that may arise under the climate emergency. This work is substantially complete, and recorded in a series of pamphlets that we have published. The approach will be consolidated in the forthcoming book. |
| Exploitation Route | Too early to say with confidence, but feedback from external audiences suggests that there is a demand and need for the outcomes of our research, with a number of prestigious invitations to disseminate the results of the project. The website www.architectureisclimate.net is already being used as a standard resource in academic and professional settings. Positive endorsements have come from R Professors from Yale, Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield Universities. We anticipate that the website in particular will be used by multiple others - as has proved to be the case with the PIs' previous research project Spatial Agency, the website of which is still attracting thousands of visits a week. |
| Sectors | Construction Creative Economy Environment |
| URL | http://www.architectureisclimate.net |
| Description | Members of the research team have been invited to contribute to a set of prestigious, non-academic projects, all of which arise directly from the project research and further disseminate it. 1. Invited contribution to main catalogue of 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale (the largest architectural event in the world) 2. Invited to write keynote article for the 1500 issue of the Architectural Review (UK's most established international architectural magazine) 3. Invited contribution to eflux and Jencks Foundation Chronograms project. eflux is the largest architectural culture website in the world, with peer reviewed content. 4. Invited to exhibit results of research project at 2024 Rotterdam Architecture Biennale 5. Invited to exhibit research outcomes at CIVA Brussels 6. Invited to exhibit work at Architectural Association as part of Chronograms of Architecture. 7. Review articles of the project in two mainstream professional journals - The Architect (which is the American Institute of Architects main publication) and Bauwelt (the most established professional journal in Germany). It is quite rare for architectural research to reach this kind of audience. These all indicate that the findings of the project are already reaching wide non-academic audiences. We will trace the impact of this dissemination. In addition, as part of the research plan we have engaged professional audiences through workshops that test the outcomes of the project. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Construction,Creative Economy,Environment |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | ARCC-EAAE 2022 Keynote JEREMY TILL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture for ARCC-EAAE 2022 conference in Miami - on the theme of Resilient City. (delivered remotely) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/i_GysDh5WrE |
| Description | Advisory Group Meeting 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | First advisory group meeting with international panel of experts from built environment professions and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Advisory Group Meeting 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Second advisory group meeting with international panel of experts from built environment professions and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Anthony Powis lecture at Camberwell College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Anthony Powis gave a lecture on the research project to students and staff at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, on 17 October 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Anthony Powis workshop at muf architects. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anthony Powis ran a workshop using the 'Futures' section of the research website to muf architecture/art (a highly influential UK architectural practice) on 24 September 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Architecture is Climate: A Conversation with MOULD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this evening event as part of our exhibition/residency series Architecture is Climate, members of the research team presented our ongoing project work to an audience of educators, students, and practitioners. Responses from the audience led to an interesting discussion. The event was recorded for online streaming. Practitioners in attendance were interested in us running workshops at their practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Becca Voelcker on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Becca Voelcker was invited as a panel member on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme, hosted by Matthew Sweet, in a programme called "Slow film and ecology". Becca referred to the research project during her contribution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00182c3 |
| Description | Climate conversation workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | First climate conversation workshop hosted by GTAS. Following and introduction to the research project, invited guests briefly talk about their own practice in relation to climate emergency. Followed by a discussion based on structured questions regarding the possible challenges that each guest faces in her/his/their own practice with regards to, for example, (interdisciplinary) collaborations or external policies (e.g. governmental / national or European) or other factors. We talk about experiences in relation to things that go "wrong", might pose threats to future developments or could in any other way prove challenging. A third line of enquiry will engage in questions about 'scaling' and we will want to ask you about what 'scaling' means to you and how you might pursue it (e.g. through building of networks, professional contexts, etc.). Finally, we hear about the role / importance of research to your practice and how you advance your knowledge base. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Climate conversation workshop 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Second climate conversation workshop hosted by GTAS. Following and introduction to the research project, invited guests briefly talk about their own practice in relation to climate emergency. Followed by a discussion based on structured questions regarding the possible challenges that each guest faces in her/his/their own practice with regards to, for example, (interdisciplinary) collaborations or external policies (e.g. governmental / national or European) or other factors. We talk about experiences in relation to things that go "wrong", might pose threats to future developments or could in any other way prove challenging. A third line of enquiry will engage in questions about 'scaling' and we will want to ask you about what 'scaling' means to you and how you might pursue it (e.g. through building of networks, professional contexts, etc.). Finally, we hear about the role / importance of research to your practice and how you advance your knowledge base. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference presentation by Christina Serifi and Anthony Powis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Radically-Open Participatory Practice in the Face of the Climate Emergency, for conference in Athens |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Design is Climate lecture (Design Museum) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited keynote lecture at the design museum in London as part of the design challenge collaborative unit hosted by Chelsea Camberwell and Wimbledon school of art. A large audience of ~200 students engaged with the talk which focussed on how climate breakdown presents a challenge to existing frameworks of design. Tutors also responded well suggesting they would rethink some of their vocabulary in particular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Guest lecture by Anthony Powis: Royal College of Art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Anthony Powis presented the research project to the RCA MArch Professional Practices lecture series on 17th September 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Initiating Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Initiating workshop for the research project with an expert panel from academia, education, built environment professions, and associated roles (activism, journalism). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Instagram - written and visual dissemination of project activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Instagram - written and visual dissemination of project activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/mould_earth/?hl=en |
| Description | Interview with Jeremy Till: IABR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Jeremy Till on the participation of his research collective MOULD at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://iabr.nl/en/biennales/nature-of-hope/updates/jeremy-till-van-onderzoekscollectief-mould-een-v... |
| Description | Introductory Podcast for the project website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The podcast introduced the research project and team for a lay audience and is available on the project website to continue to offer an overview of the project as it progresses |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://mould.earth/mld001 |
| Description | Jeremy Till workshop with Carlo Ratti Associates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till invited to do a workshop on 12/2/25 to members of Carlo Ratti Associates, an international firm of architects, whose founder is the curator of the 2025 Venice Biennale. This is one of a series of workshops to professional practitioners to disseminate the findigs of the research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Jeremy Till: Keynote Lecture for ENHR Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till gave invited keynote to the annual ENHR (European Network of Housing Research) in Barcelona, presenting the Architecture after Architecture project. The response was very divided. Half the audience were upset to the point of anger at the challenge presented to the status quo, while the other half (generally the younger) were grateful for the force of the critique. One Danish member of the audience later reported that she had taken the ideas back to the emerging Danish commission on the future of the profession. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.habitatge.barcelona/en/noticia/barcelona-will-be-the-scene-of-enhr-platforms-internation... |
| Description | Keynote lecture at Australian Architecture conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till was invited to deliver final keynote lecture at the ArchiTeam conference. ArchiTeam is Australia's leading representative of small, medium and emerging architects and architecture practices. ArchiTeam holds a National Conference every 2 years. The theme for the 2021 ArchiTeam Conference was Trajectories, with an online and physical audience of over 350, mainly architects. Jeremy presented a talk called "Architecture after Architecture", setting the premise of the research project. Audience feedback was positive: i.e this email: Hey Jeremy I only tuned in to the conference to get CPD points...a requirement to stay registered as an architect in Australia. It was a dreary day and then you popped up and gave me lots to smile about....finally someone with something sensible (and considered....and provocative...) to say. Our group loved you laying into 'sustainable architecture' as a term. And your take on growth as criminal!? Fantastic. Look at the Melbourne skyline??? The work of criminals (architects and developers and politicians). This is a country founded on corruption...lies and deceit. We don't stand a chance..... And we know it.... Look out for 'Respair' being stolen and used by the sanctimonious 'sustainable design set' here in Melbourne. Thanks again. Brilliant presentation. (I hope you tuned out of the panel discussion.....) Clinton |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.architeam.net.au/2021-architeam-conference |
| Description | Launch of Project Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the formal launch of the project website, www.architectureisclimate.net It was an online Webinar with over 200 registered attendees. The members of the research team went through the website in detail and then guest speakers made short presentations on the relevance and importance of the website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.de/e/architecture-is-climate-website-launch-tickets-853013726017?aff=oddtdtcr... |
| Description | Lecture by Jeremy Till to Institute of Architecture / die Angewandte Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on Architecture after Architecture to Institute of Architecture / die Angewandte Vienna |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lecture by Jeremy Till: Politechnico di Milano |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture by Jeremy Till in his role as Visiting Professor at Department of Architecture, Politechnico di Milano, January 2023. Lecture was to over 100 PG students and their lecturers/professors, and introduced the studio that Till also ran based on the Architecture after Architecture project. Many of the audience said afterwards that this was the first time issues of climate had been so clearly set out at Polimi. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.dastu.polimi.it/minds-2023-milano-international-design-studio/ |
| Description | Lecture of Portuguese 'Ordem dos Arquitectos' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till invited to give closing talk to the 'Ordem dos Arquitectos' (Portugal's national architectural association) annual conference on sustainability. Till presented the findings of the research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Lecture to Escola de Arquitetura, Arte e Design Universidade do Minho "Architectural Research in the face of the climate emergency" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to the postgraduate community of this Portuguese university, applying the arguments of the Architecture after Architecture project to architectural research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Podcast by Jeremy Till as part of 'Architecture Talk' series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till was invited on to the 'Architecture Talk' podcast hosted by Vikram Prakash from the University of Washington, Seattle, US. The podcast has a wide (over 2k) audience, and in this episode Jeremy set out the 'Architecture after Architecture' project and its recent developments. It was identified by Spotify as the most listened-to podcast in the series in 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.architecturetalk.org/home/136jt |
| Description | Podcast for the project website - Care and Architecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The podcast discussed Care and Ethics as they relate to architecture, and contained interviews with three guests (architects and theorists) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://mould.earth/mld-011 |
| Description | Presentation and debate participation for BBC/ AHRC by Becca Voelcker (New Generation Thinkers scheme) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | New Generation Thinkers Scheme, Final Round |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://mould.earth/histories-of-the-future-filming-climates-in-crisis |
| Description | Presentation to Architecture Students at Northumbria University - Becca Voelcker, Christina Serifi, Anthony Powis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Architecture After Architecture for undergraduate architecture students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Project Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This is the website which gathers together all the activities of the research project and its associated research collective MOULD. It is divided into four sections: Conversations : Talks : Writings: Interactions, and documents all the outputs accordingly. Thus far (Feb 2025) the website has had over 20k views from 10k visitors from over 95 countries. It differs from the main research website www.architectureisclimate.net - the latter is a more comprehensive research resource. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | http://www.mould.earth |
| Description | Public Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | All members of the research team, including our German partners, hosted a public workshop at Floating University in Berlin as part of their Climate Care Festival. The subject of the workshop was our draft chapter on Vulnerability. The event sold out (we limited the audience to 30 so that everyone could engage). After members of the research team summarised the various parts of the paper, four invited guests made responses. This was followed by a general discussion and then a silent reading of the text, where all workshop attendees wrote or drew on excerpts from the text with their impressions and comments. The event was videoed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://floating-berlin.org/programmes/climate-care/climate-care-2023/ |
| Description | Publication in Bauwelt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The German magazine Bauwelt published the results of our research in an article 'Architecture is Climate, in their December 2023 issue (pages 13-19). Bauwelt is the most established and influential journal for architects in Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | Research Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is one of the main outputs of the research project (as identified in the grant application). It is an extensive collection of resources to navigate the connection between architecture and climate breakdown. It has over 120,000 words, fully referenced and cross-linked, and thus constitutes a major research outcome. The website is divided into three sections: Foundations, Practices and Futures. These cover respectively the past, present and future of architecture in the face of climate breakdown. The website was launched publicly on 14th March 2024. Up to 5th February 2025 it has had over 10,000 unique visitors from 107 countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | http://www.architectureisclimate.net |
| Description | Talk by Jeremy Till at TU Delft |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till invited to contribute to public seminar on 'Pedagogies of climate action' as part of TU Delft's BK Talks. He presented a short summary of the research project using prompts from the Futures section of the website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/live/ZiOhOVdNOmk |
| Description | Talk by Jeremy Till at TU Delft |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Till invited to contribute to public seminar on 'Pedagogies of climate action' as part of TU Delft's BK Talks. He presented a short summary of the research project using prompts from the Futures section of the website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/live/ZiOhOVdNOmk |
| Description | Talk delivered online by Jeremy Till to Miami University Ohio (US) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk delivered on Architecture After Architecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk delivered online for University of the West of England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around 20 academics attended a talk in which the team presented our research project and showed slides |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Team presentation at AHRA Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project team members gave a presentation and ran a workshop at the annual AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) conference. The team presented the outline of the research project and then ran a two hour workshop reflecting on the implications for architectural education. The in-person audience was small, but supplemented with a larger online audience from Europe and the US. The session was followed up with requests for further collaboration from US participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ahra2022convening.com/Program |
| Description | Urgency, Growth, and Spatial Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference Paper at 'Growth/Emergency: Re-Imagining Cities, Economies and Ecologies in the Time of the Anthropocene' hosted by UCL Urban Lab and Institute for Advanced Studies. International audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/news/2022/apr/growthemergency-re-imagining-citie... |