The 2010 Imperative
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To successfully impact global warming and world resource depletion, it is imperative that ecological literacy become a central tenet of design education. Yet today, the interdependent relationship between ecology and design is virtually absent in many professional curricula. To meet the immediate and future challenges facing our professions, a major transformation of the academic design community must begin today. To accomplish this, Architecture 2030 has issued 'The 2010 Imperative' which calls upon the academic design community to adopt the following:
"Solutions to design problems must engage the environment in a way that dramatically reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuel."
- Beginning in 2007, educators should add to all design studio problems the following requirement:
- By 2010, all academic design curricula shall achieve complete ecological literacy in design education, including the following areas of study:
design / studio
history / theory
materials / technology
structures / construction
professional practice / ethics
- By 2010, all design school campuses shall achieve a carbon-neutral footprint. This may be accomplished by implementing innovative sustainable design strategies, generating on-site renewable power and/or purchasing renewable energy and/or certified renewable energy credits (REC's, Green Tags), 20% maximum.
