250 meters of Happiness is a symbol of voice, visibility and agency of young humans to cultivate ‘compassion capital’, foster humane relationships and cultivate safe, shared and flourishing futures through collective action.
Baaka Cultural Centre by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture revitalises a former general store in Wilcannia into a community-led cultural hub with gallery, language spaces, keeping place and tourism facilities, celebrating Barkandji heritage and shared history.
Transforming an underused classroom into a climate education hub, this project equips students with practical Passive House skills (Insulation, Airtightness, Windows, Ventilation, Modeling , supports workforce pathways, and models scalable, climate-responsive training through sustained partnerships.
The Yanjiang Rural Village School reimagines rural education in China, serving five villages with adaptable, sustainable architecture that integrates courtyards, passive strategies, and cost-effective design to strengthen community resilience amid rapid urbanisation.
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.
Cave Urban are designing the master plan for three Living School campuses. Rebuilding after the 2022 Lismore floods, the project explores how architecture can increase resilience to natural disasters and re-imagine existing built infrastructure.
Grow Your Own City’ explores whole value chains, connecting rural village-based bamboo agroforestry with the fast-growing urban centres of Indonesia, to unlock a multitude of socio-environmental benefits across global bamboo supply chains.
This project is part of APLA’s Community Engagement Program on SDG Awareness, aiming to localize the Sustainable Development Goals through interactive, place-based learning.
Reimagining school campuses as living laboratories for sustainable living. Rooted in a learning-by-doing pedagogy, students learn sustainability by transforming their campuses into examples of environmental stewardship and circular economy in action.
The research uses participatory heritage education and community mapping for sustainable development, empowering communities in Magé, Brazil to manage cultural landscapes (SDGs 4, 11, 16).