Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment
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Copyright: 2023
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In this series of dialogues with leaders from various disciplines, we position design as an essential component of entrepreneurial approaches which explore the sociocultural and eco-political dimensions of climate change. Economist, Architects, Planners, Sociologist, Lawyers, Policy Makers, Landscape Architects, and MBA’s contribute to a spirited discussion around climate change and design.
Global climate change has already resulted in a wide range of impacts across every region of the country. Many sectors of the economy are expected to grow related to climate and health in the coming decades. The design and retrofit of buildings, infrastructure and cities will be a major part of future efforts.
All interviews are Kendeda Building based on Georgia Tech’s Atlanta campus with experts participating from around the world.
Foreword: Mother Earth by Shan Arora, J.D., LFA
Overview: The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Situating Climate Change and Design
CHAPTER 2 “Valuing” Equity
CHAPTER 3 Buildings and Landscapes That Teach
CHAPTER 4 Design Futures
CHAPTER 5 Market Transformations and Sustainable Development
CHAPTER 6 Design Based Climate Change Policy
Postscript: A Proposal for a “Renter ‘Equity’ Fund”
Contributor Biographies
Additional Readings
Michael’s love of design at all scales is evident in his teaching, research and practice.
He is a registered architect, director of the Modern Cities Europe Program, and creative director at Gamble + Gamble Architects in Atlanta. From 2015 to 2022, he directed the Master of Architecture program in the School of Architecture. His design-driven research operates at a variety of scales, from house to city, with emphasis on innovation, alternative energy, and building technology pursued within the context of a larger concern for the creation of healthy, well-conceived environments. He has received numerous awards for excellence in design and scholarship. www.gg-architects.com
Michael was the first point of contact for the $30 million Living Building gift, a.k.a. Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design (KBISD), and actively participated in pre-planning and fund acquisition, design competition and team formation, all the way through building execution, implementation and certification. He also led a series of interdisciplinary design studios that paralleled the effort, and chaired the Academic and Research Council connected to the project. He is co-author of the novel organizational structure of the living building workgroups, now tested, and currently serves as chair of the KBISD advisory council and leads the Living Building Pilot Project Program, comprised of faculty, researchers and students from across campus, now in round three of funding.
Michael’s research has received grants from The Alcoa Foundation, The Kendeda Foundation, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, the National Endowments of the Arts, and received First Prize for Research in an international competition sponsored by the Environmental Design and Research Association. Gamble has published essays on the design of the public realm in Harvard Design Magazine with W. Jude Leblanc.