THINK TANK
The Think Tank has three main programmes of work:
Future Visions
Exploring ideas around a restorative/ net positive built environment, based on our understanding of environmental limits and social equality, and drawing on both best practice and emerging knowledge from leading practitioners and thinkers from around the globe about creating exemplary projects at both the building and neighbourhood level.
Grand Challenges
Identifying areas that need systemic change, both across the industry and at a cultural level, and then developing disruptive, collaborative responses about how change can be achieved, resulting in systems maps to show what change (and new system infrastructure) is needed to meet the grand challenge.
Exemplars Library
At the Sustainable Development Foundation our mission is to help tackle the climate and ecological emergency by driving the adoption of exemplary sustainability practices in buildings. Our library of exemplar projects demonstrates buildings which are fit for the future and being built, NOW.
At the moment, the current questions for leading-edge practitioners are focussed around a restorative or net positive built environment. This is therefore the current focus for the SDF think tank.
ALLIANCE
The SDF also continues to support an alliance of the organisations it has helped to set up. Together these form a collective “Do Tank” with the aims of:
- Gathering together pioneers of advanced sustainable buildings,
- Delivering pioneering change on built environment projects,
- Representing the pioneers within the sustainable buildings movement