FutuREstorative - review - Revision history

https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=FutuREstorative_-_review FutuREstorative - review - Revision history 2026-05-15T01:28:18Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.17.4 https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=221547&oldid=prev Designing Buildings at 11:00, 28 December 2021 2021-12-28T11:00:12Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 11:00, 28 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File:Futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability.jpg|link=</del>File:Futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability.jpg]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability.jpg]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Martin Brown – ‘FutuREstorative: Working towards a new sustainability’</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Martin Brown – ‘FutuREstorative: Working towards a new sustainability’</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Students, practitioners and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking response that will be essential in adapting the built environment to prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Students, practitioners and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking response that will be essential in adapting the built environment to prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For more information and to purchase the book, please see [http://www.ribabookshops.com/item/futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability/85971/ RIBA Bookshop].</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Related articles on Designing Buildings =</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">= Find out more =</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==</del>= Related articles on Designing Buildings <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wiki ==</del>=</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* An Introduction to Passive House - review.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* An Introduction to Passive House - review.</div></td></tr> </table>

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Designing Buildings https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=98349&oldid=prev Michael Brooks at 17:40, 12 February 2018 2018-02-12T17:40:44Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:40, 12 February 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 38:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 38:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Retrofit.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Retrofit.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">--[[User:Michael_Brooks|Michael Brooks]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Publications_/_reports]] [[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Sustainability]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Publications_/_reports]] [[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Sustainability]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Michael Brooks https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=77941&oldid=prev Editor at 16:52, 19 May 2017 2017-05-19T16:52:07Z

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Editor https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=76331&oldid=prev Editor at 16:59, 28 April 2017 2017-04-28T16:59:23Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 16:59, 28 April 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 34:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 34:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Environmental policy.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Environmental policy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Green building.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Green building.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* How Buildings Work - review.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Retrofit.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Retrofit.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Publications_/_reports]] [[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Sustainability]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Publications_/_reports]] [[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Sustainability]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Editor https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=68152&oldid=prev Editor at 17:54, 24 January 2017 2017-01-24T17:54:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:54, 24 January 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 28:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 28:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* An Introduction to Passive House - review.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* An Introduction to Passive House - review.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Bill Gething and Katie Puckett - Design for Climate Change.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Bill Gething and Katie Puckett - Design for Climate Change.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Biomimicry in Architecture - review.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Building Revolutions - review.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Building Revolutions - review.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Climate change science.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Climate change science.</div></td></tr> </table>

Editor https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=64020&oldid=prev Designing Buildings at 08:05, 28 November 2016 2016-11-28T08:05:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 08:05, 28 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>-----</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This book</del>, written by the consultant Martin Brown, is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">another </del>worthy addition to the growing corpus of texts debating the problems and solutions facing the built environment and sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FutuREstorative: Working towards a new sustainability</ins>, written by the consultant Martin Brown, is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a </ins>worthy addition to the growing corpus of texts debating the problems and solutions facing the built environment and sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Where this book differs somewhat is in its inclusion of blog-style contributions from a collection of business leaders, advocates and practitioners, from construction and beyond.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Where this book differs somewhat is in its inclusion of blog-style contributions from a collection of business leaders, advocates and practitioners, from construction and beyond.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Running through the book is the idea that respect and intolerance for causing damage to nature has been lost, as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a result of </del>the built environment gradually <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">eroding </del>our real connection to nature. Key to the book’s <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">themes </del>is the idea of shifting the sustainability debate from focusing simply on energy performance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </del>on to a more holistic view <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on </del>social, wellness, health and healthy buildings.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Running through the book is the idea that respect and intolerance for causing damage to nature has been lost, as the built environment <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has </ins>gradually <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">eroded </ins>our real connection to nature. Key to the book’s <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">theme </ins>is the idea of shifting the sustainability debate from focusing simply on energy performance on to a more holistic view <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of </ins>social <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">performance</ins>, wellness, health and healthy buildings.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The book posits the concept of ‘net-positive construction’, which asks the question ‘what if every construction site made the world a better place?’; that, instead of being wasteful and emissions-heavy, the construction sector could generate more energy, water and reusable resources than it consumes.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The book posits the concept of ‘net-positive construction’, which asks the question ‘what if every construction site made the world a better place?’; that, instead of being wasteful and emissions-heavy, the construction sector could generate more energy, water and reusable resources than it consumes.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry are explored as methods of learning and adapting <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">from </del>natural processes. It makes the case <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">convincingly </del>that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">New innovations </del>such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">described </del>as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry are explored as methods of learning <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">from </ins>and adapting natural processes. It makes the case that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Innovations </ins>such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seen </ins>as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>development <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of, </ins>and action on sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions on offer, the book serves as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">more of </del>a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than attempting to provide a prescriptive road-map to definite answers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions on offer, the book serves as a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than attempting to provide a prescriptive road-map to definite answers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Both students </del>and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that are </del>raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking that will be essential in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">terms of </del>adapting the built environment to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">help </del>prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Students, practitioners </ins>and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">response </ins>that will be essential in adapting the built environment to prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>For more information and to purchase the book, please see [http://www.ribabookshops.com/item/futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability/85971/ RIBA Bookshop].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>For more information and to purchase the book, please see [http://www.ribabookshops.com/item/futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability/85971/ RIBA Bookshop].</div></td></tr> </table>

Designing Buildings https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=63979&oldid=prev Editor at 16:28, 27 November 2016 2016-11-27T16:28:04Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 16:28, 27 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry are explored as methods of learning and adapting from natural processes. It makes the case convincingly that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. New innovations such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are described as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry are explored as methods of learning and adapting from natural processes. It makes the case convincingly that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. New innovations such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are described as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions on offer, the book serves as more of a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than a prescriptive road-map to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">all the </del>answers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions on offer, the book serves as more of a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">attempting to provide </ins>a prescriptive road-map to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">definite </ins>answers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Both students and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas that are raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking that will be essential in terms of adapting the built environment to help prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Both students and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas that are raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking that will be essential in terms of adapting the built environment to help prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td></tr> </table>

Editor https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=63978&oldid=prev Editor at 16:27, 27 November 2016 2016-11-27T16:27:11Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 16:27, 27 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry are explored as methods of learning and adapting from natural processes. It makes the case convincingly that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. New innovations such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are described as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry are explored as methods of learning and adapting from natural processes. It makes the case convincingly that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. New innovations such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are described as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offered</del>, the book serves more of a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than a prescriptive road-map to all the answers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on offer</ins>, the book serves <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as </ins>more of a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than a prescriptive road-map to all the answers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Both students and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas that are raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking that will be essential in terms of adapting the built environment to help prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Both students and policy makers in the built environment would do well to engage with the challenges and ideas that are raised by this book, as it is this kind of creative and forward thinking that will be essential in terms of adapting the built environment to help prevent and respond to the uncertainties of climate change.</div></td></tr> </table>

Editor https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/index.php?title=FutuREstorative_-_review&diff=63977&oldid=prev Editor at 16:26, 27 November 2016 2016-11-27T16:26:25Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 16:26, 27 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability.jpg|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">182px</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability.jpg|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">link=File:Futurestorative-working-towards-a-new-sustainability.jpg</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Martin Brown – ‘FutuREstorative: Working towards a new sustainability’</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Martin Brown – ‘FutuREstorative: Working towards a new sustainability’</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The book posits the concept of ‘net-positive construction’, which asks the question ‘what if every construction site made the world a better place?’; that, instead of being wasteful and emissions-heavy, the construction sector could generate more energy, water and reusable resources than it consumes.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The book posits the concept of ‘net-positive construction’, which asks the question ‘what if every construction site made the world a better place?’; that, instead of being wasteful and emissions-heavy, the construction sector could generate more energy, water and reusable resources than it consumes.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">book explores the </del>concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a method </del>of learning and adapting from natural processes. It makes the case convincingly that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. New innovations such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are described as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The concepts and benefits of biophilia and biomimicry <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are explored </ins>as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">methods </ins>of learning and adapting from natural processes. It makes the case convincingly that best practice and established sustainability standards have all-too-often fallen into the box-ticking ‘doing less bad’ trap, rather than aiming to do good. New innovations such as BIM, the internet of things and social media are described as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’, providing opportunities to advance development and action on sustainability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions offered, the book serves more of a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than a prescriptive road-map to all the answers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>While some may come away frustrated with the solutions offered, the book serves more of a challenge to the limited orthodoxies of contemporary thinking rather than a prescriptive road-map to all the answers.</div></td></tr> </table>

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