The survey of more than 400 UK-based students revealed significant gaps in teaching about the circular economy and how to reuse existing buildings, with a
Climate activist group Architects Climate Action Network has launched a student-focused arm in response to its recent survey, which revealed that UK architecture students feel unprepared to tackle the climate crisis.
The new branch, named Students Climate Action Network (StuCAN), calls on architecture schools to place sustainability at the forefront of their curriculums to reflect the urgency of the climate crisis.
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) argues that students will be less able to tackle climate change in future work if carbon literacy continues to be seen as a specialist subject. Architects are complicit in the climate emergency Fundamentally, students feel they are currently being let down by their architectural education, explained Megan Coe, education coordinator at ACAN.