The three concerns underpinning everything we do at Lancaster School of Architecture are Future Practice, Digital Crafts and the Climate Crisis.

Future Practice: Issues such as future cities and rapid urbanisation, changing societal and family structures and patterns of working, new materials and accelerating digitalisation necessitate a new kind of architectural professional, equipped to address such challenges.

Digital Crafts: Digital fabrication, agile production, rapid prototyping, disruptive technologies, advanced manufacturing, learning-by-doing and the maker movement: our students will not just be familiar with these ideas but will go on to become future pioneers.

Climate Emergency: Addressing the climate crisis is an imperative. Climate change will be seamlessly integrated into to everything we teach and we will strive for it to become utterly normalised so as to be part of our everyday conversation in studio, all the time.

Five additional, facilitative themes help us address these.

• First is Radical Creativity, since they can only be tackled via highly creative, innovative and socially embedded, solutions.
• Next is Ethics: we are becoming a more unequal society and so applied ethics is integrated in our professional practice.
• Furthermore, People lie at the heart of the design process and human-centred design is part of all our teaching.
• Place is important to us since our school is located next to the Lake District and we take full advantage of this uniquely exceptional setting to address issues of place, landscape and context.
• And finally, how is all of this achieved? Through integrating education and Research

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