We Are Out of Time is a project that aims at the international promotion of Italian sustainable architecture for cultural places. It also aims at the activation of research and dissemination networks of qualitatively significant projects on the topic of sustainability of cultural places, in collaboration with cultural and scientific institutions worldwide.
Sustainable Architectures for Cultural Places
Overview
DESIGNING IN TIME OF CRISIS
For long time civil society, industries, professional associations, and governments as well as the world of architecture, wondering about the right path to follow to reach the 17 sustainable development goals of the UN Agenda 2030.
The scientific community has spoken out unanimously on climate crisis.
The humankind with its activities has the sad primacy over the unprecedented production of greenhouse gas emissions, reaching the threshold of 400 ppm ever achieved in the history of our planet.
All of this happened in a very short time frame of 150 years only.
Mitigation, adaptation, and resilience are the strategies at our disposal, before we close the loop and reach a + 1,5°C global temperature increase, that will make the effects of the ongoing climate change irreversible.
The common goal of architecture should be to maximize the resilience of the ecosystems and the organism that inhabit them and reduce as much as possible the CO2 emissions.
Although some processes triggered by the action of the greenhouse gases are already considered irreversible, time still remains the key factor in preventing the most catastrophic scenarios from taking place. For this reason, the architecture that embraces the principles of sustainability aims to achieve an ambitious objective. We no longer have time to work on theories; it is necessary to act and work to put them into practice.
Call
For
Design Paper
The call for paper and the call for design are open. They aim to collect all the disposable data on sustainable architecture for cultural places throughout the Italian country.
The research is addressed to professionals and university research groups in order to find examples of sustainable architecture already made or at the design stage and to detect research products that comply with the principles of sustainability and resilience.
For this reason, each candidate should provide a life cycle assessment calculation about material and structures and list how many and which 17 SDGs have reached.
