We kick off day 3 of the Retrofit Reimagined Festival with a session on the accessibility and intersectionality of retrofit. There is a role for everybody in retrofit, so how do we make space for everybody to make that happen?
This talk is hosted by Sara Edmonds, an architect and activist who is the steering group coordinator at ACAN, an organisation formed to empower individuals within architecture and related built environment professions taking action to address the twin crises of climate and ecological breakdown. She is also the director of Studio seARCH, a consultancy that advocates for systemic change around low carbon domestic retrofit. She is also co-host of Zero Ambitions Podcast. Working in the face of a climate emergency, the focus of Sara’s work is to drive essential change in the built environment and wider communities through bottom up, grassroots projects and strategies.
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Rosie Murphy is the Diversity & Solidarity Coordinator, and Co-Coordinator of the Education Group within the Architect’s Climate Action Network. She is also an Advocate for the Black Females in Architecture network and a recent Part 2 graduate from the Sustainable March at The Centre For Alternative Technology. Through her activism and projects, she seeks to bring environmental and socially inclusive design methods together. Rosie now works at Matt+Fiona where young people are asked how their built environment might be improved, educating and empowering them to bring that vision to life through installations and built projects.
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Sasha Josette is a strategic communications & media consultant working in campaigns, participatory policy and climate justice and the Co-founder and Director of Breathe. She has been an organiser with the UK Labour Party’s Community Organising Unit.
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This talk took place at Selwyn Road Playing Fields (Birmingham Settlement) in Ladywood on Thursday 13th July 2022 as part of Retrofit Reimagined Day 3: Existing And Emerging Practice In Retrofit. Retrofit Reimagined was a four day neighbourhood festival that ran 13th — 16th July 2022 in Birmingham, UK that sought to bring together neighbours, practitioners, and organisers from across the country who are focused on retrofit, its role in the future of decarbonising our built environment and a just transition.
Hosted in partnership with Dark Matter Labs, ACAN and zero carbon house, within a wider 3 week festival from CIVIC SQUARE that explored regenerative neighbourhoods together with many people and partners, as a collective we aimed to converge some of the most inspiring and impactful work on retrofit, with many different sectors, practices and ideas coming together to form new combinations.
Our hope is to establish solidarity, share knowledge and resources, and galvanise collective momentum around more equitable, creative, collective approaches to decarbonising the built environment, reimagining retrofit from being one of our biggest challenges to one of our greatest opportunities to transition equitably together.
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