The St James Centre is a project which uses a natural stone façade.
The construction industry should be a place where young digital natives can come and use their skills and passion for technology to do something meaningful to help tackle the climate crisis.However, if we don’t make this evident to them, they’ll go to work for pure technology companies instead.
Construction and the wider built environment will miss out.But it doesn’t have to be that way.We took SEISMIC, our school design app, to a primary school in Hackney.
This digitally intuitive generation of Minecraft players already have many of the skills we need.They were excited by the app.
It stimulated their creativity and imaginations.
We must begin exploring these subjects with children earlier, encouraging education around topics like automation and DfMA, alongside digital skills, tools and techniques in degree courses.The first is the brightness, promise, and capability being brought by the young that will blossom into the world.
The second personification is that of the researchers; business, political and organisational workers; and investors who are already working hard to guide the world.Finally, but maybe the most powerful, is the personification of humanity and the interconnection of people.. At the end of the story, there is a sense of optimism..
I will therefore go into 2025 with optimism and a determination to carry on trying to build connections and collaborations.Building on some well-laid foundations of thinking and action, I will try to come together with others to accelerate positive change.