About

Studio Just Transitions is an MArch Design Studio at Sheffield School of Architecture.

The world is embarking on an unprecedented transition. To deliver on the global commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement, the UK must achieve zero carbon emissions by the mid-2030s. Such a change will require the radical adaptation of both our energy system and the way we engage with energy as a society. Energy transitions have always been shaped by social, political and economic structures, and the transition ahead of us is as much a cultural transition as a physical one.

As a studio we explore how the move from an extractive to a regenerative economy can be delivered in a way that ensures the benefits of climate action are shared widely and the costs do not unfairly burden those least able to pay, or whose livelihoods are directly or indirectly at risk as the economy shifts and changes.

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“It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale,
perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and comes to us
bundled with several others in an anthology of comforting delusions”

David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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