Author(s): Sascha Delz & Julia Sulzer
This essay is a preliminary attempt to question and reframe specific aspects of professional education for architectural and urban designers in order to address challenges driven by extractive practices within the current economic system—one built on unlimited growth, environmental destruction, and social disparities. These considerations stem from research on non-speculative housing and economic models, ongoing explorations of circularity in design and construction, and the development of a recently established postgraduate degree program, within which the authors have played leading roles in shaping content and conducting design courses and research seminars. Under their stewardship, the program promotes architectural and urban design as a comprehensive, collective, circular, non-extractive, and non-speculative framework. It advocates for a more radical shift toward socially equitable and environmentally sustainable approaches by diverging from established linear design practices while simultaneously converging design activities with processes typically associated with industry and policymaking.
Volume Editors
Reed Kroloff & Francisco J. RodrÃguez-Suárez
ISBN
978-1-944214-52-4