"Building Legacy: Designing for Sustainability" is a multi-stakeholder platform responding to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development challenges. The forum will build a body of knowledge of green infrastructure through talks, pilots, and partnerships to explore how to close the gap between sustainable design and responsible production.
Through a partnership with real estate developers, product manufacturers, or urban planners, the platform seeks to shift global urban planning and infrastructure for rapid and practical implementation of the 2030 Agenda goals.
"Building Legacy" builds on the axiom that architects and designers are already engaged in sustainable development. However, market rules, adherence to traditional approaches, and financial considerations challenge the production of sustainable infrastructure at scale. "Building Legacy" designs an agenda that can respond to practical issues and doable solutions to create new methods and market rules.
It calls for designers and producers –thinkers and doers– to use design thinking and business engineering coordinately to make sustainable development more profitable while rebranding it and improving its marketing value.
"Building Legacy" openly invites the leading operational partners in this field. The platform has a global outreach and will concentrate its efforts on countries in the global south that are undergoing or are projected to undergo rapid urbanization and/or infrastructural development. Including top-tier corporations and global institutions, "Building Legacy" intends to capitalize on the results these companies may have achieved and set an example for companies operating in the targeted locations.
The Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change supported "Building Legacy" presentation at Design Miami 2016. Among many participants, "Building Legacy" started partnerships with entities such as Design Miami, the Arizona State University, MIT, Harvard Graduate School of Design, SHoP Architects, JDS Development, the Ministery of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Family Architecture, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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