The built environment plays a major role in sustaining our
society’s development and the quality of our planet. Today’s society, both at
national and global levels, faces the global climatic change that represents a
threat beyond our past experience. If we are to achieve the aim of a
sustainable development, then we must understand the complex interactions
between the built and natural environment. Understanding that relationship
enables us to generate agendas for collective action which are both achievable
and sustainable. Public institutions and private organizations that create and
use the built environment and natural resources need to focus their efforts on
the long-term perspective. Citizens, local communities and civil societies,
through their democratic participation, can also influence policy development
in a meaningful way. By the choices we make about our own lifestyle we all can
contribute to shaping a future for ourselves and for the common future of our
planet.
The responsibility for furthering an understanding of the
multidimensional and interactive impact of the built environment lies with its
researchers, academicians and practitioners. Architects, urban designers,
planners, development analysts and transportation managers need to develop the
interdisciplinary perspective to understand the relationship between global
warming and our activities as shapers of the built environment. As a member of
professions that contribute to the built environment, the School of
Architecture, Planning and Policy Development at ITB has a particularly important
part to play. The perspective adopted by the school is a holistic one, focused
on an attempt to understand the interaction between the different elements that
make up the built environment. Interaction among researchers within the school
as well as engagement with international scientific communities are important
mean to achieve that scholarly pursuit.
Art direction and design: Rampakasli
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