Mapping the way forward: education for sustainability in architecture and urban design

Altomonte, Sergio; Rutherford, Peter; Wilson, Robin

Abstract

Given the growing relevance of the sustainability agenda to the professions of the built environment, one way to ensure that its mandates are effectively integrated in architecture and urban design is to revisit the role that education, particularly at university level, can play. It is well understood that this requires a significant paradigm shift in the underlying pedagogies involved in educating for sustainability. It could be argued therefore that one of the main challenges is to address the dichotomy between effectively integrating creative expression with rigorous technical exploration, this being a core demand of high-quality sustainable design. As such, advances in curriculum development must seek to promote this integration more effectively, and, in so doing, facilitate knowledge transfer between both the creative and the scientific disciplines that are core to a sustainable architecture and urban design process. In response, this paper explores the outcomes of a European project, EDUCATE (Environmental Design in University Curricula and Architectural Training in Europe), seeking to look critically at the barriers and opportunities afforded by implementing sustainability in pre- and post-professional education in architecture and urban design, and exploring some of the strategies required to promote such integration. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

Citation

Altomonte, S., Rutherford, P., & Wilson, R. (2014). Mapping the way forward: education for sustainability in architecture and urban design. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1311

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 22, 2012
• Online Publication Date: Dec 5, 2012
• Publication Date: May 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Sep 26, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 26, 2016
• Journal: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
• Print ISSN: 1535-3958
• Electronic ISSN: 1535-3966
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1311
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/995783
• Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/csr.1311/full
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Altomonte, S., Rutherford, P. and Wilson, R. (2014), Mapping the Way Forward: Education for Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design. Corp. Soc. Responsib. Environ. Mgmt., 21: 143–154, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/csr.1311. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.