The Role of Architects and Planners as Part of Grassroots Practices: In Response to a Sustainable Built Environment and The Climate Emergency
Kartal, Sıla (2023)
Kartal, Sıla
2023
Arkkitehdin tutkinto-ohjelma - Master's Programme in Architecture
Rakennetun ympäristön tiedekunta - Faculty of Built Environment
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2023-05-19
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202304264676
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202304264676
Tiivistelmä
Production of space under the neoliberal system is worsening the climate crisis. Therefore, architects and planners must produce spaces by challenging neoliberal practices for sustainable change. In order to achieve this, the status quo of architecture engaged with neoliberal practices should question the alternative ways of practicing architecture. Architects and planners need to take responsibility and criticize current modes of practice and space production. Following this, sustainability should not only be linked to technical solutions and building performances but also to social solutions.
Based on theoretical research, space is socially produced; hence, space can respond to sustainability by reproducing social relations in architectural practice. The thesis suggests seeking social solutions for architecture by investigating other forms of spatial production. Social solutions are examined in grassroots practices currently challenging neoliberal space production's status quo. Examining their processes and activities, learning from them, and being active at the grassroots as architects will contribute to a sustainable built environment. In furtherance of it, architects should reinvent their roles while engaging in those processes.
Thereby, the aim is to investigate the roles of architects and planners as part of the grassroots to comprehensively respond to a sustainable built environment and the climate emergency. A different study from the conventional 'case study' was conducted on six examples to gain further insights about the subject. Therefore, while collecting data, besides scientific resources, Literature reviews and interviews were conducted using different sources such as social media, news, brochures, magazines, podcasts, and online lectures.
Furthermore, the literature review and investigated examples uncover that architects and planners are needed in grassroots processes and have to draw on grassroots knowledge, skills, and insights. Moreover, the findings demonstrate that grassroots and professionals should co-produce sustainability in the built environment. This thesis contributes to what roles architects and planners can take as part of the grassroots to achieve a sustainable built environment and promotes further research related to the topic.
Based on theoretical research, space is socially produced; hence, space can respond to sustainability by reproducing social relations in architectural practice. The thesis suggests seeking social solutions for architecture by investigating other forms of spatial production. Social solutions are examined in grassroots practices currently challenging neoliberal space production's status quo. Examining their processes and activities, learning from them, and being active at the grassroots as architects will contribute to a sustainable built environment. In furtherance of it, architects should reinvent their roles while engaging in those processes.
Thereby, the aim is to investigate the roles of architects and planners as part of the grassroots to comprehensively respond to a sustainable built environment and the climate emergency. A different study from the conventional 'case study' was conducted on six examples to gain further insights about the subject. Therefore, while collecting data, besides scientific resources, Literature reviews and interviews were conducted using different sources such as social media, news, brochures, magazines, podcasts, and online lectures.
Furthermore, the literature review and investigated examples uncover that architects and planners are needed in grassroots processes and have to draw on grassroots knowledge, skills, and insights. Moreover, the findings demonstrate that grassroots and professionals should co-produce sustainability in the built environment. This thesis contributes to what roles architects and planners can take as part of the grassroots to achieve a sustainable built environment and promotes further research related to the topic.