If I had a penny for each time someone in the last couple of weeks has quipped that they’re ‘so hot right now’, I’d be on my way to becoming a rich man.
Record-breaking temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere are just the latest reminder of what’s at stake in climate terms. And to think we’re currently ‘only’ 1.1 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. That’s certainly no joke. Our recent Global Design Agenda: Sustainability Design Week speakers pulled no punches when they set out the priorities, challenges and, often, the contradictions of a meaningful approach to sustainability in architecture and design. The clarion call was made by 
