About Partners for a Sustainable Future

Teaching programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture offers study environments that harness the school’s vision of Engaging Through Architecture and its three focus areas: transformation, habitation, and sustainability at both Bachelor’s and Master’s level. The programme has a specific focus on sustainability.

The programme is passionate about investigating and imagining architectural approaches to societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. We explore the making of space and our role within this process through emerging methods and tools both at different scales and in local and global contexts. We design for the needs and well-being of people, which is the foundation of a resilient and healthy environment.

Our emphasis is on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches involving anthropology, sociology, and psychology can qualify architectural design and how contextual influences such as politics, history, culture, ethics, climate/climate change, pollution, ecology, (scarce) resources, economy, technology, etc., can foster new qualities and imagination. These contextual influences inspire rather than inhibit architectural design.

In the Bachelor units, students are introduced to different analytical approaches, whereas the Master studios offer specialisation within different professional fields of architecture.

Teaching programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture consists of the following studio:

• Studio 3: Shifting Territories for an [un]stable Environment

Research Lab 3 is passionate about investigating and imagining architectural and spatial approaches to the societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. We explore the making of space and our role (as architects) within this process through emerging methods and tools both at different scales and in local and global contexts. Our emphasis is on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches involving anthropology, sociology and psychology can qualify architectural design and how contextual influences can foster new qualities and imagination.

[Radical] sustainability in architecture addresses architectural approaches to societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. This includes understanding architectures influence at both a global and local scale as well as the architect’s role within the complex process through emerging methods and tools within these different scales and contexts. Sustainability encompasses both wider social and environmental needs but also the needs and well-being of people which is the foundation for a resilient and healthy environment.

Within the school’s research and education, there is an emphasis on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches such as anthropology, sociology and psychology can qualify architectural design. As well as, how additional contextual influences (politics, history, culture, ethics, climate/climate change, pollution, ecology, (scarce) resources, economy, technology, etc.) can foster new qualities and imagination to enrich further and inspire rather than inhibit architectural design.

Associate professor Thomas Hilberth works as a coordinator in Research Lab 3.

• Download description of Research Lab 3 (PDF)
• Download description of the research subgroup Nordic Sustainable Architecture (pdf)