The Climate Imaginary: Actar - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1638400059 ISBN 13: 9781638400059

Publisher: Actar, 2026

Synopsis

The Climate Imaginary reflects on a global collection of design works that are engaged with the social, political and cultural transformations anticipated with climate change. 

With the climate emergency dominating our collective consciousness, the design field has mobilized to engage with the social, political and cultural transformations anticipated with the effects of this crisis. There has also been a corresponding widening to the spectrum of climate-informed design explorations, going beyond the technical imperatives of sustainability. 

The Climate Imaginary brings together a global collection of works which provide a sample of this plurality. This pluralism reverberates more explicitly with the scope of disruptions that will affect all aspect of our lives. The pervasiveness of the effects of this emergency opens up a panoply of subjects to be explored by designers that will affect all aspect of our lives. The pervasiveness of the effects of this emergency opens up a panoply of subjects to be explored by designers. 

With Contributions of Abalos + Sentkiewicz, appareil, B+W+, C+ Arquitectas, Design Earth, EcoLogicStudio, Ecosistema Urbano, Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa, Ensamble, Fadi Masoud, Harvard Office for Urbanization, Iredale Pederson Hook, LLDS Architects, Lydia Kallipoliti et Al.

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About the Authors

Leire Asensio Villoria is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne's School of Design and is a co-director of the MSD’s ADD+F (Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication) Research Hub. She has taught at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture and at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Leire is an author of Systems Upgrade: Re-fabricating Tectonic Prototypes (Actar), Architecture of Waste: A (Re)Planned Obsolescence (Actar) and Lifestyled: Health and Places (Jovis).

David S.C. Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne’s school of design. David has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Cornell University’s department of architecture at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association in London. David is an author of the books: Lifestyled Health and Places (Jovis) and Systems Upgrade: Re-fabricating Tectonic Prototypes (Actar). Together with Leire, his creative works have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Design Week amongst others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Actar
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1638400059
• ISBN 13: 9781638400059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Villoria Leire Asensio, Mah David