The Design for Climate Adaptation pre-event serves to generate interest and discussion around the theme of this year’s International Union of Architects conference: Sustainable Futures – Leave No One Behind. The Design for Climate Adaptation track emphasizes people, multiple forms of research, knowledges, and action. It seeks high and low-tech solutions to environmental and ecological design that make buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes, cities, and regions regenerative, resilient, and adaptive to climate change impacts. Methods for centering wellbeing, generating energy, harvesting rainwater, heating and cooling, purifying air and water, sequestering carbon, supporting biodiversity, and designing waste out of systems allow us to rethink how buildings, neighbourhoods, and cities are designed, operate, and contribute positively to the socio-ecological systems they are within. 

Change over time, temporality, and future climate scenarios will be addressed by design for rising sea levels; increasing extreme weather events such as flood, drought, and wildfire; and strategic consideration for effective stormwater design, reduction of desertification, and protection of biodiversity. Beyond these direct effects of climate change, the indirect impacts of climate change will also influence the shape of future buildings, landscapes and cities. These include social and cultural change; changes to human migration patterns; changes to economic contexts; the urgency to decarbonise; and issues related to changing availability of resources. 

Design for Climate Adaptation: Knowledge to Action aims to help humans adapt as effectively and appropriately as possible, in both technical and cultural ways by encouraging built environments to integrate with, regenerate, and become part of cooperative symbiotic ecologies.  

Adaptation with Indigenous Knowledges presents design-oriented scholarship and/or indigenous or local understandings and practices of approaches to climate change adaptation. During this panel, we will seek to answer the following questions: How can local and Indigenous knowledges shape, challenge, or improve our understanding of climate change adaptation through the lens of spatial design, planning, and ways of living in the built environment? What are climate adaptation-related concepts or projects led or challenged by Indigenous people and communities? 

“与自然的解决方案(NBS)相适应”模块研究了实现多尺度的气候适应和生态再生的方法。该模块将寻求回答以下问题：目前人们如何在建筑环境中与自然合作，并理解、融合和模仿自然，如何转变方式以适应气候变化?

Adaptation Through Nature-based Solutions (NBS) examines the means to achieve multi-scalar and interdependent climate adaptation and ecological regeneration. This panel will seek to answer the following question: How are people currently working with, understanding, integrating with, and/or emulating nature in the built environment to aid and transform efforts to adapt to climate change? 

“结合行为改变和行动的适应性设计”模块研究了人类行为的设计策略，如何提升个人和社区应对气候变化？我们将探讨以下问题:建筑环境的设计如何促进、支持或挑战人类行为、价值观和合作过程以作为适应气候变化的手段？合作设计、参与式设计等创新设计和实践过程，如何倡导积极的变化？建筑、景观建筑和城市设计如何切实地展示和促进气候变化运动?