Sofie Pelsmakers is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Architecture at Tampere University, Finland. She is an environmental architect, educator and author of the Environmental Design Pocketbook (sold 5,000 copies over two editions). Nick Newman is Director of award-winning practice Studio Bark and U-Build. Nick is a Passivhaus Designer who speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine in 2014.

• Editor's Note; Creating Change with Impact: An Architect’s Manifesto; Not Opposites: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sambuichi on Architecture and Nature; Think Before You Build; Movement Building: Activism in an Age of Crisis; The Sponge City: Planning, Design and Political Design; Radical Design Processes and Rethinking the Architect’s Role; Transforming Education in a Climate Emergency; Architectural Learning for a Sustainable Future; Hope in the Burning World; Towards a Zero Carbon Architecture: Clay Field, Suffolk, UK; Goldsmith Street, Norwich, UK; Housing for City of York, UK; Radical Sustainable Architecture: Kingsdale School, London, UK; Co-housing Project: Vindmøllebakken, Stavanger, Norway; Implementing Sustainability: Upcycle Studios, Ørestad, Denmark; Resource Rows, Ørestad, Denmark; Olympic Pavilion, Tokyo, Japan; UN17 Village, Copenhagen, Denmark; A Choreography of Bricks: School of Dancing Arches, Bhadran, India; Adaptation Out of Necessity: Cuba; Sustainability is Not Enough: SBRC, University of Wollongong, Australia; Burnwood Brickworks, Melbourne, Australia; The Paddock, Castlemaine, Australia; Final Word

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