Studio Introduction

This year Studio Just Transitions was located in the Firth of Clyde, an area containing significant disparities in wealth and capital (both natural and social). Stretching from the industrial towns of Greenock and Port Glasgow with their own links to historical extraction of wealth through the sugar industry out to the coastal communities of on the Isle of Bute and Arran both locations for Glaswegian workers ‘Doon the Watter’ to escape the conditions of the city.

As a studio we have explored and questioned how we can move from an extractive to a regenerative economy, 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. Taking the Firth of Clyde as our territory of focus the studio has developed projects that place social and ecological justice at the heart of a just transition to a decarbonised future.