- Venue
- Editional Studio
- Starts
- Saturday, June 10, 2023
- Ends
- Friday, June 9, 2023
- Address
- Stockton Road Manchester M21 6ED
- Location
- North West England
- Organiser
- Castlefield Gallery
Register at https://spark-12.eventbrite.co.uk for Decarbonise Your House (or studio) NOW! with architecture practice Editional Studio
This SPARK session at architectural practice Editional Studio will include a tour of exhibition models, material samples, posters and guides that outline how we can reduce our environmental impact and the creative potential of how it might be done. In the session, we’ll look at things which relate both to arts practice in terms of using waste streams, considering the wider processes of extraction and how we might shift to using materials that restore nature and are healthier for ourselves. We will also consider as well as how artist spaces (e.g. artist studios which are typically in cold and expensive to heat) might be able to be upgraded to improve their energy efficiency, and keep us warm and healthy.
49% of UK carbon emissions are attributed to buildings. To put this into context, we have the poorest performing building stock in Europe and with 80% of the buildings that exist today expected to remain in 2050 there is little alternative but to act. By 2050, all our buildings must be net carbon zero.
The good news is that we already know how to reduce the energy consumption of our current poorly-performing building stock by 75%. With highly insulated buildings, the remaining 25% of the energy needed to heat and run our homes can be produced through renewable sources like Heat Pumps in order to reach Net Zero Carbon.
Achieving this requires a step-change in how we work, invest, extend and renovate. There is untapped creative potential in how we adapt and upgrade our spaces; improving our built environment and well-being, adding character and using beautiful natural materials. We need to move beyond sustainable design, where we minimise the negative impact of construction, to regenerative design, where our activities restore, renew and revitalise natural systems.
Editional Studio, run by architects Jo Sharples and Jack Richards, is a Manchester-based architecture studio that celebrates sustainable, considered design.
