Global Entrepreneurship Week

Spark conference 2012

Designers as instigators of change

16th November 2012

1997 - 2009

2000 - 2009

2009 - 2011

reset

• It takes a minimum of 7 years post A level to qualify as an architect

• 33,000 architects in the UK

• We are in still in the worst construction industry recession for 50 years

• Approximately 1500 architects claim job seekers allowance

• Average projected debt of architecture students starting education now, £45K

• ‘Project Architects’ with 3-5 years post-registration experience earn between £34-42,000

• Average house price is £240k – therefore unaffordable to most architects

The short to medium term business model is doesn’t work

Architecture is a poor career choice on paper

Design changes the world

Why do it?

• Architecture like other Creative industries does not stand in isolation

• With hindsight you will be able to see what has influenced your generation

• We are part of movements happening now, shaped by our geopolitical context

• What do you want to dedicate your energy, your time and your company to?

Charles Jencks, ‘modern movements in architecture’

Trends in creative thinking

What is the most important issue now?

The issue

• Global warming is real, its effects can be accurately estimated and its consequences will be felt by many.

• Approximately 50% of all resources consumed on Earth are used in construction.

• Construction is the least sustainable industry in the world. It is going through a period of change.

• Met Office predicts that England’s average temperature will be 9 degrees higher in 2080.

• Our future will be hotter, with less predictable water supplies, more violent storms, more expensive oil and gas and less certain energy supplies

The complicating factor

• Here, since the events of 2008 the rate of supply of new homes in London and the south east of England has fallen of a cliff.

• However, population growth is set to bring 1 million more people to London over the next 20 years

• There are 360,000 households on the current social housing waiting list

• all new homes to be carbon zero by 2016, with all new buildings meeting the same standard by 2019.

small part of the solution

• Reduce, re-use, recycle

• Brownfield development

• Build to let - Pension scheme funding

• Density intensification

• Planning/construction legislation

• Renewable energy technologies

• Sustainable design

• Practical responses

• Design buildings now that will accommodate the future climate

33,000 / 1

Riverside Taxi mooringLarge residential & mixed use developments

Major transport link

Major public destination

Main pedestrian and cycle routes

Riverside taxi and hotel access

Future river taxi location

riverfront renaissance

Aims:• To Engage with the issues• To raise OWD’s profile• To demonstrate capabilities• To win more work

• LB Wandsworth to update 2004 Business Case

• LB H+F increase priority in SFR SPD after consultation.

• GLA promote and actively support bridge in principle

• Gain political support at parliament

• Gain residents support on both sides of river

• full planning application to be submitted November ’12 (application will be referable to the Mayor under Category 2C 1(h) "a crossing over the River Thames". )

• Funding streams to be explored along with sponsorship opportunities

• Planning to be achieved spring 2013

• Design development to tender in 2013

• Post planning surveys and site start by autumn 2013

• Open bridge for spring of 2014

Research, consult, action

The design

Help us move towards the tipping point:

• Refer to http://www.one-worlddesign.co.uk/• ‘like’ us at http://www.facebook.com/oneworlddesign

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