Climate - Building Resilience

CLIMATE explores the diverse ways The Royal Danish Academy, Architecture, Design and Conservation tackles issues of climate change. The UN Sustainability Goals has been a strategic focus point at the academy for the past few years, leading to high end climate change research across the disciplines of architecture, design and conservation. This book contains an in depth look at the many approaches to the problems rapidly changing the world. Highlighting best practice, the book shows the development, methods and approaches thriving in a cross disciplinary environment.

In the book you will find 29 cases and interviews unfolding the many ways research and practice can contribute to a sustainable agenda.

More about the book

New book brings together some of the best climate solutions from researchers, lecturers and students at the Royal Academy. The book testifies to the academy’s work with the UN’s world goal, and demonstrates why architecture, design and conservation are the key to a sustainable transformation.

Less business as usual, more focus on solutions we do not yet know. This is how the mantra at the Royal Danish Academy has sounded for a long time. Now the book ‘Climate – Building Resilience in the Era of Climate Change’ brings together a selection of recent years’ creative proposals for climate solutions.

The UN’s world goals are a joint venture

Through interview conversations and cases, the book shows how architects, designers and conservators relate to and work with climate change in study projects, teaching and research. Back in 2016, the Royal Danish Academy was the first Danish research and eduation institution to make the UN’s world goals a joint venture, and the book is a testament to this many years of work, says Rector Lene Dammand Lund.

‘This book provides examples of how we can build a stronger and more sustainable society with new knowledge and original solutions. And it makes abundantly clear why architects, designers and conservators play a crucial role in the big task, which is to emit less CO2 and deal with the consequences of climate change.’

Untraditional reading

In the book, architecture researchers describe, for example, how we can create high-quality building elements out of low-quality wood with the help of a CT scanner. The book also shows how conservator and architecture students help to transform a dilapidated half-timbered house on Bornholm into a beautiful and sustainable building. And in an interview, design associate professor Else Skjold talks about how the designers of the future can set the fashion industry on a sustainable course.