Dresden Declaration: The turnaround in construction begins at university

As part of its meeting at TU Dresden on April 26, 2024, the Deans' and Department Heads' Conference for Architecture, Spatial Planning and Landscape Architecture in the Federal Republic of Germany (DARL) issued a Dresden Declarationadopted. In it, the academics support Architects 4 Future's call to adapt the curricula of the study programmes in the sense of a building turnaround.

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weyrauch, Dean of the Fac ultyof Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planningat BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, explains: "Issues relating to sustainability and climate protection as well as the careful use of resources are playing an increasingly important role in the teaching and research of our planning courses at BTU. In Urban Planning in particular, our curricula have only recently been adapted. In view of the increasing dynamics of climate change, teaching content and fields of research must be persistently put to the test and adjustments made. Our students, in particular, are also demanding this, as they want to understand how to develop our buildings, cities and landscapes in a sustainable and climate-friendly way and make them climate crisis-proof."

Dresden Declaration on a climate and socially just turnaround in construction and Architects 4 Future - 10 demands for a turnaround in construction