Climate challenge: designing for sea level rise
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https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2024.13218Keywords:
climate change, flooding, uncertainty, physical modelling, adaptationAbstract
This paper describes a teaching improvement experience in third and fourth year design studio within a combined engineering and architectural design MEng degree at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. The proposal was developed over the first four weeks of the academic year as an “ice breaker” exercise. The aim of the exercise was to meet three objectives: a critical and rational approximation to climate change in a context of uncertainty around possible future scenarios, involving the students in their own learning, and leaning on the materiality of their projects by asking them to build a scale prototype that floated or negotiated rising sea levels in any other way. The results of this exercise were highly satisfactory for both faculty and students. The latter got very involved in the process, and were able to build a highly convincing discourse supported by very interesting physical prototypes.
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