AIA’s Framework informs progress toward an equitable, healthy, resilient, and zero-carbon built environment. It aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, demonstrating a common urgent call for climate action and equity.
Transformed uninviting urban block into an open-air museum to reveal the site’s buried First Nations and early colonial histories in the form of a contemporary ruin, fostering truth-telling and reciprocity.
Design Process Studio integrated UNSDGs into second-semester interior design education, positioning sustainability as foundational rather than supplementary. Students addressed real-world challenges, examining how design decisions intersect with environmental, social, and economic systems.
A critical site-specific approach grounded in the SDGs, students engage in month-long fieldwork in pressured regions. Collaborating with local communities, they test designs informed by context, gaining methodological, empathetic, and applicable architectural competencies.
The Sustainable Architecture Prompt (SAP) is a card-based educational tool designed to help architecture students and educators integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into design studios.