'Future Climate Future Home’ is all about engage current experts and the next generation of designers and planners with climate-sensitive urban design techniques.

Commentary on climate change is often alarmist and can employ inflammatory language.

Words like 'catastrophe', 'threat' and 'urgency' are widely used. The problem is that such commentary can lead to denial, paralysis, apathy, or even perverse reactive behaviour.

At the same time, a major blockage to transformational change is a lack of design vision that can capture the public imagination for more sustainable and climate-adapted futures.

With this in mind, the Australian Urban Design Research Centre and University of Western Australia School of Design's latest design competition, 'Future Climate Future Home,' aims to engage current experts and the next generation of designers and planners with climate-sensitive urban design techniques and elicit innovative climate-sensitive urban design solutions.

This international ideas competition is open to tertiary students and graduates from any climate region worldwide.

Entrants are encouraged to work in multidisciplinary teams.

To enter the competition, please follow these few steps:

Select a 200 x 200m site in a city or town worldwide.
Research projected 2099 climate conditions of your chosen city or town using IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report and Interactive Atlas, assuming an SSP3-7.0 (+4°C) scenario.
Adapt the site to projected climate conditions, focusing on extreme temperatures.

The competition has a total prize pool of AUD 15,000.

For more info, check out the competition brief here.

Image: Nur Mohd Rozlan, Transit City / AUDRC

Clémence Carayol

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