This is an event organised by Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), where Julie Godefroy from the Edge will be speaking. Register now following the source link.

To tackle climate change at an industry level are professional silos a help or a hindrance? Do we need greater interdisciplinarity or simply greater collaboration across multidisciplinary teams of specialists? Do we need more generalists or specialists, or some combination of all of the above? This meeting will seek to explore some of this.

Questions will consider the conventional boundaries of architecture as a discipline and how these are defended in academia and practice. We will consider how these boundaries could be holding us back and how to overcome the trappings of over-identification with our particular role, skillset and the values system which drives that. On a practical level we will ask what needs to be done now, what kind of educational changes and new relationships we need to be fostering in our working lives and as a network (ACAN) and broader movement.

The meeting will be held over Zoom and feature presentations from 3 speakers. Following the presentations will be a Q&A session.

Speakers include:

Julie Godefroy, Sustainability Consultant, Technical Manager at CIBSE and member of The Edge . She has been involved in projects from early stages through to post-occupancy evaluation, as well as policy work.

Carlotta Conte, Dark Matter Labs - Dark Matter Labs is a multidisciplinary design team working with to develop new working methods for system change.

Jonathan Atkinson, Carbon Coop - one of the co-founder of Carbon Coop, an energy services and advocacy co-operative that helps people and communities to make the radical reductions in home carbon emissions necessary to avoid runaway climate change.