Climate Change
News
Parliamentary Friends for Australian Urban Design reconvenes for the 48th Australian Parliament
The Parliamentary Friends reconvened at Parliament House, uniting political and professional leaders to champion architecture and design.
Ideas
Comment: “Heritage architecture and climate resilience – don’t throw the baby out with the floodwater”
David Gole, principal at leading climate-resilient design practice JDA Co., comments on the intersection between heritage and climate in architecture.
Events
What is the role of design in a world in crisis?
At the World Design Congress in London, a simple idea threaded through two dense days: design is not an island. It moves inside wider systems of economics, policy, finance and ecology.
Ideas
Behind the Brand on the eve of Sustainable House Day with Helen Oakey
Helen Oakey is CEO of Renew and, with Sustainable House Day 2025 upon us, she talks to us about the climate crisis and what people can do at the scale of the home.
Events
Climate crisis informs new graphic novel, Cabal
Andrew van der Westhuyzen, one of Australia’s pre-eminent creatives, has launched his debut book Cabal, the first in a series of illustrated science-fiction short story works.
Ideas
Newly released toolkit gives architects key strategies for climate-resilient design
Drawing on years of experience, Marra+Yeh Architects has made a new toolkit available online for everyone.
Events
“We need to stop pretending it is for someone else to solve”: Carol Marra on climate crisis
We speak to architect Carol Marra following recent events focusing on climate-resilient design.
Events
Learning from the Global South with Tosin Oshinowo
The Nigerian architect was recently in Australia for Melbourne Design Week. We spoke to her about the power of design in cities such as Lagos.
Ideas
Comment: Can we please stop designing for the set of Blade Runner?
Simon Liley, Principal Sustainability Consultant at Cundall, writes about how cyberpunk dystopias haven’t (quite) come to pass yet – and how designers can avoid them.
Workplace
Back to basics at Zero Gipps: First-principles sustainability with SJB and Verosol
Beau Fulwood and Alison Peach on returning to a low-tech, first-principles concept of design as a strategy to combat climate change.
Ideas
Radical logics of connectedness and circular economy with Chris Fox
We sat down with Chris Fox to speculate on the future of regenerative architecture, circular economy and experimenting with vegetation in and on buildings.
Ideas
Woods Bagot’s Russell Fortmeyer: Whose climate is it anyway?
In this comment piece republished from INDESIGN #90, Woods Bagot’s Global Sustainability Leader in Los Angeles brings questions of equality to design in the climate crisis.
Events
Buildings Breakthrough at COP28: Q&A with David Ness
UniSA Professor David Ness played a key role in a UN report on CO2 emissions relating to buildings, construction and urban growth which underpins the Buildings Breakthrough official launch at COP28 in Dubai.
Events
An unprecedented inquiry into precedents with Kevin Carmody
Following his recent keynote speech at the 2023 Australian Architecture Conference, we spoke to architect Kevin Carmody about his inspirations and experience.
Ideas
8 design strategies to combat emerging climate challenges
Ronald Lu and Partners shares proven eco-friendly design solutions that help architects create buildings that are capable of responding to the environmental crisis.
Events
Our response to the Architects Declare Open Letter to design media
What is the media’s role in pushing a more sustainable agenda? Indesign Media Asia Pacific editor Aleesha Callahan responds to the open letter.
NSW
One year in Bundanon: A retrospective on The Bridge and Art Museum by Kerstin Thompson Architects, part one
Kerstin Thompson Architects’ work at Bundanon recently marked its one-year anniversary. Having garnered such international attention, and with Thompson having recently been awarded the AIA Gold Medal, it’s a fitting time for a mini-retrospective on this architectural success story.
Ideas
Comment: Why is it important to communicate the value of architecture?
In this comment piece, Lindy Johnson, director of Lindy Johnson Creative, urges architecture to communicate its value. Johnson says that architects are needed more than ever but their value is highly underrated — and that we’re all the poorer for it.
Ideas
Climate change is right now, and architect James Davidson is ready
Architect James Davidson of JDA Co. wants to move the dial faster on making homes safer, insurance cheaper and enabling communities to rebuild better when natural disaster strikes.
People
Russell Fortmeyer connects good ideas for climate action
As global sustainability leader with Woods Bagot, Russell Fortmeyer takes a clear stance on leaders’ roles in spotlighting sustainability as the reigning imperative of our times.
Articles
Milliken launches the M/PACT™ carbon neutral program to help fight climate change
Milliken’s new sustainability initiative is helping to design a better future by offsetting the raw materials and manufacturing carbon footprint of its flooring products.
Events
The Waste Refinery: Beautiful objects made from waste
Running from 6 November 2021 to 16 January 2022 at National Design Centre, the exhibition features 20 international and local creators designing with waste as the starting point.
Ideas
How to talk (constructively) about sustainable design
Rachael Bernstone distills her 18 years’ worth of wisdom on architecture and sustainable design down to 5 pertinent steps that architects and design practices can action now.
Project
Behold the ‘new European Bauhaus’ à la Takada
Climate crisis, meet your comeuppance; the dawn of the new European Bauhaus has come. And here’s Koichi Takada to show us how it’s done.
Ideas
Two technologies available today to resolve climate change
As the attention of our communities and economies remain fixed on mitigating the effects of the global pandemic, Jean-Pascal Tricoire urges us to not lose sight of our planet’s biggest threat: climate change.
Ideas
Meet Proteus: the intrepid brainchild of Science x Design
Conceived by aquanaut Fabien Cousteau and designed by Yves Béhar with fuseproject, Proteus could hold the key to mitigating climate change impacts.
Ideas
Designing for a climate-changed future
The events of this past summer have led to Australia being viewed as the global canary in the coal mine. So how might we respond to this threat to our homes and communities: both to limit further damage, and to prepare for a climate-changed future?
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Why the current crisis could be a defining moment for building a more resilient and sustainable future
Philippe Delorme, Executive Vice-President of Energy Management of Schneider Electric, discusses how the current COVID-19 crisis may be a defining moment in building a more sustainable future.
Ideas
Greening our way through the pandemic
A group of UNSW cross-discipline experts discuss the benefits of plants, gardening and green spaces during COVID-19.
News
Magic mushrooms at Somerset House, London
Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi at Somerset House offers an insight into how mushrooms could revolutionise the design and architecture industry.
Events
Magic mushrooms at Somerset House, London
Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi at Somerset House offers an insight into how mushrooms could revolutionise the design and architecture industry.
Ideas
Hail Hail, Parliament House
If our national seat of power isn’t safe from extreme weather, what in Australia is?
Ideas
The UN Calls: It’s Time For Action On Climate Change
Collective action and a multi-stakeholder approach are needed to tackle climate change. Schneider Electric is doing its bit with a climate-impact disclosure tool. Sally Eaves and Gilles Vermot Desroches report.
Ideas
#ConstructionDeclares Singapore
Singapore architects and engineers join the declaration of environmental crisis and commit to positive action.
Ideas
Change must be made soon or regional Australia will become unlivable
What happens when the risk of fire makes regional life completely uninsurable? We may be about to find out.
Articles
Taking back our climate
In the hopes of a regenerative future, voices of passion and activism are leading the way in restoring our landscape to give generations the brighter planet that they deserve. A leader in global sustainability, Interface® is changing the game by overcoming humanity’s biggest challenge of climate change.
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Climate Change – Our Generation’s Biggest Challenge
We are already living with the consequences of climate change. And climate change is an energy issue. We must rethink the way we live with energy. Schneider Electric Chairman and CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire shares ways we can manage it better.
Events
SID Design Conversations: Tourist Or Global Citizen? Designing Hospitality In The Climate-Change Era
An architect, an engineer and an interior designer working in the hospitality sector discuss alternative building materials, penalties for polluting construction, and time as an aspect of sustainability.