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The LFE 2024 Masterclass training modules are available individually on demand. Enjoy this opportunity! Recording will be also available afterwards in case you are not able to attend them live.

The built environment sector (supply, design, construction, manage), despite decades (of reports, training, strategies, legislation) is simply not making real progress within the sustainability agenda and the imperative of resilience. Business-as-usual, only reducing impact, remains the dominant, degenerative discourse.

One of the areas where we at Living Future Europe believe faster and more effective progress is needed is education and communication. On one hand, we need to train new generations of practitioners to make living buildings real. On the other hand, we need to communicate constantly in an invigorating way that regenerative buildings, products, companies, and communities are vital, technically feasible, ecologically robust, and economically viable.

To achieve these goals, we have established the ‘Living Future Europe Masterclass’, the third edition of the online educational program running between February and May 2024. The upcoming Masterclass, much like in previous years, will focus on education as a powerful tool in affecting progress towards regenerative design. This year we would like to pushing the boundaries even further. Our goal with this edition is to build on the past edition’s success, and address the ‘why’, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of living buildings, products, and communities.

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This session will feature:

LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE PETALS 
[17:00-19:00 UTC +1]
with Carlo Battisti & Martin Brown

MATERIALS

The intent of the Materials Petal is to help create a materials economy that is non-toxic, ecologically restorative, and transparent. Throughout their life cycle, building materials are responsible for many adverse environmental issues, including personal illness, habitat and species loss, pollution, and resource depletion. The Imperatives in this section aim to remove the worst known offending materials and practices and to drive business toward a truly responsible materials economy. When impacts can be reduced but not eliminated, there is an obligation not only to offset the damaging consequences associated with the construction process, but also to strive for corrections in the industry itself. Over the past decade, the Red List has transformed the building industry from one where ingredients were held in secret to one where transparency is becoming the new normal.

EQUITY

The intent of the Equity Petal is to elevate equity as a project goal, and to transform developments to foster a just and inclusive community that enables all people to participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. It is grounded in the belief that a society that embraces and engages all sectors of humanity and allows the dignity of equal access and fair treatment is a civilization in the best position to make decisions that protect and restore the natural environment that sustains all of us.

Disturbing trends toward privatizing infrastructure, externalizing negative social and environmental impacts, and limiting access to nature, which combined with growing income equality exacerbate polarized attitudes of “us” vs. “them”, and limit full participation in community life for all. Only by realizing that we are indeed all in this together can the greatest environmental and social problems be addressed.

Living Buildings are meant to be accessible and welcoming to all people, helping us recognize and celebrate cultural richness, while ensuring equitable access to fresh air, sunlight, and clean water and soil. The process of designing, building and operating Living Buildings should also have a positive impact in creating jobs and opportunities for inclusion of people who have been disadvantaged, excluded, or discriminated against.

Just℠, the Institute’s social justice transparency platform for organizations, is a publicly accessible label and online database, and is a core component of the Equity Petal. Just is a powerful tool to help project teams assess their own organizational equity, and to identify and support other organizations that share the values of a socially just and culturally rich living future.

BEAUTY 

The intent of the Beauty Petal is to recognize the need for beauty and the connection to nature as a precursor to caring enough to preserve, conserve, and serve the greater good.

As a society, we are often surrounded by ugly and inhumane physical environments. The key to creating beautiful buildings is to embrace a biophilic design process that emphasizes that people and nature are connected and the connection to place, climate, culture, and community are crucial to creating a beautiful building.

LBC. THE PROCESS

The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is a certification program, advocacy tool, and philosophy defining the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment today. As a certification program, it addresses all buildings, landscapes, and infrastructure projects, at all scales, and is an inclusive tool for transformative design. Whether the project is a single building, a renovation, or a park, the Living Building Challenge. It provides a framework for design, construction, and improvement of the symbiotic relationship between people and all aspects of the built and natural environment.

The Core Green Building Certification℠ (Core) joins the Living Building Challenge as a simple yet holistic framework outlining the ten best-practice achievements that a building must obtain to be considered a green or sustainable building.

The Early Project Guidebook (Guidebook) highlights requirements that determine basic feasibility for LBC and Core projects and provides guidance on elements that classify the project for purposes of certification, including Typology, Project Area, and Living Transect designation.

Times are CET (UTC+1)

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