Designing an urban territory fit for the challenges of the 21st century.

The Dear Green Glasgow studio examined the complex urban fabric of inner city Glasgow. Two major events gave context to this studio: the Glasgow Garden Festival held in 1988 and the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Starting from the scale of a show garden to voice and activate change, students have grown their projects to speculate innovative city visions to foreground and address pressing social and environmental pressures such as urbanisation, pollution, loss of biodiversity, sustainable food production, management of water resources and the impacts of climate change.