Despite the challenges of lockdown, and the closure of our offices, A&DS has continued to deliver high quality and important work. We review our year.
Annual Review 2020: A Message from our Chair
Looking back over a challenging year, Ann Allen reports on the changes to our built environment and how we've used design to empower communities.
Designing for a Changing Climate: Planning Reform Report
This directly follows on from the pilot project A&DS undertook, which considered a whole place approach to designing for a changing climate.
Press Release: Designing for a Changing Climate Publication launched
Design in a Changing Climate: report shows how places across Scotland can tackle climate change and improve people's quality of life.
Designing for a Changing Climate – Pilot Study Reflections
A&DS worked in four local authorities to pilot Carbon Conscious Places - here is a report of the findings from this pilot study.
Designing for a Changing Climate – Report
Architecture and Design Scotland recently undertook an exploration into designing for a changing climate. Download the report to learn more.
PSCF2020: Climate Resilient Communities – Dr Nadine Andrews, Scottish Government
In this presentation Dr Nadine Andrews looks at climate resilient communities.
Designing for a Changing Climate: Re-purposing and sustainable placemaking by Neal Hemingway, Threesixty Architecture
In this blog Neal Hemingway, of Threesixty Architecture, writes about the tools available to consider repurposing and sustainable placemaking.
Designing for a Changing Climate: The value of vacant and derelict land – Shona Glenn, Scottish Land Commission
Shona Glenn from the Scottish Land Commission, writes about the potential of vacant and derelict land in tackling the climate emergency.
Designing for a changing climate: Building resilience in a crisis – Blog by Daisy Narayanan, Sustrans
In this blog Daisy Narayanan considers what we can learn from the current crisis when we look to tackle the climate emergency