Latitudes Network Launch
Latitudes Network Launch
Sharing ideas for a better world. Latitudes is a global educational network that will engage future generations with the challenges of designing for climate change. The agenda is simply that environmental change is best experienced if it is to be understood. The Latitudes network will offer an opportunity to open doors into diverse climates, both real and virtual, for students and staff to engage in inter-disciplinary design research and learning by working across different latitudes and climatic regions. In this way our changing climate will become more tangible. Students and researchers will have the opportunity to think across boundaries, to create new ideas for living and working in an age of unpredictable climate. The Latitudes programme will create memories about how important our climate is to the places we build and inhabit. Our network comprises universities in Turkey, India, China, Italy, Norway, Finland, Maldives, Malaysia, Brazil, Colombia and UK. Our teaching and research interest and current work spans across four thematic areas related to design for environmental sustainability and climate change: Adaptation Design, Green Design, Resilience Design and Arctic Design.