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Architects from ZHA returned for their third consecutive year to Thornhill Primary School to lead a co-design project titled “Tomorrow Makers”, which challenged Year 5 pupils to imagine their school in the year 2050 and to design a climate-resilient learning environment for the future.

The penultimate co-design of the 2025/26 academic year took place in Bristol at Headley Park Primary School, where 9-and-10-year-olds teamed up with engineers and architects from Arup and Stride Treglown to Redesign the School Clubhouse for 2050.

Anurita Chandola FRAS, a space-wear and textiles artist, recently completed her first co-design project with Year 5 pupils at Charles Dickens Primary School in Southwark, London. Anurita introduced the children to the critical fact that in space, resources are entirely constrained and nothing can be wasted through her brief “A Sustainable Suit for Extreme Climates”.

Architect and designer Polly North, founder of LANDE studio, completed her second successful co-design project with CCAC in July called “Farm of the Future”.

Luisa Charles, a multi-award-winning interactive design engineer and one of CCAC’s Young Designer Award winners of 2025, has successfully completed her first co-design.

Michael Pecirno, Sustainable Futures Lead at Hassell, recently completed his third successful CCAC co-design project – his second with Year 5 at St John’s and St Clement’s Primary School.

For the second year running, Studio Egret West worked on a co-design project with Year 5 pupils at Heathfield Academy. The project focused on nearby Wandle Park, a vital open space increasingly at risk of flooding as our climate changes.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) embark on their third co-design with Year 5 children at William Tyndale Primary School in Islington. Architects Angela Augelli Curci and Effie Nakajima led the project, setting a timely brief: Retrofit an Art Gallery for Floods and Heatwaves, based on the soon to be open Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.

From the Ground Up (FTGU) architects and founders Elin, Will, and Jake complete their first CCAC co-design with Yr 5 from The Bemrose School in Derby, where they focused on bridging the gap between people and the natural world.

Year 5 pupils at Rosary RC Primary School were tasked with imagining a future for healthcare in a landscape that has completely dried out. Sheppard Robson Architects led this brief, which focused on on the creation of a sustainable “Oasis” – a sanctuary designed for ecological recovery to support the wellbeing of patients from the…

On the 10 March 2026, Year 5 pupils from London Fields Primary School gathered at The Art House by Acrylicize – an arts and design space in Bethnal Green.

This winter, From The Ground Up studio invite the children of Bemrose Primary School to reimagine the landscapes of their future. Tasked with envisioning the world of 2050, the students will explore how we can revive both human and more-than-human communities.

This is what the Compost Collective, winners of CCAC’s 2025 Young Designer’s Award, have just completed with Year-5 children at Lyndhurst Primary School in the London borough of Southwark. 

CCAC’s South West hub expands with a new Arup and Stride Treglown partnership at Headley Park Primary, setting the blue print for regional climate co-design hubs.

Georgia Trower plans a co-design with London Fields Primary school, re-imagining Hackney Marshes for a community centre

How do you help a class of 9-and-10-year-olds tackle the complex challenges of climate adaptation? For architecture and design practice Studio Egret West, the answer was to put the masterplan into the children’s hands.

Both Compost Collective and Luisa Charles were successful applicants for the 2025 CCAC Young Designers Award. The four scientist/designer members of the Collective are driving greater awareness of waste deployment, organic regeneration, and food production.

ZHA, the international multi-award-winning practice, returned to Thornhill Primary School this summer. Their mission: to reimagine the local neighbourhood as a flood-resistant, resilient community in the year 2050.

CCAC Young Designer’s Award recipient Clara Chu has been co-designing school backpacks resilient to climate futures.

CCAC is delighted with the outcome of the ‘Food waste to fashion!’ co-design project in Walthamstow.

Fashion and textile designer Aurélie Fontan’s CCAC co-design project with year 5 children at Gorran School reaches its exciting conclusion.

We are delighted to welcome technology infrastructure strategist Franck Marcaire to our board of trustees.

The Portal Trust and CCAC are collaborating to launch a new London primary school cluster in 2026.

CCAC funds young, practicing designers to deliver climate-friendly co-design projects with primary school children.

Climate Change All Change reflects on the 2025 spring term, which has seen co-design programmes blossom in four primary schools across the country.

A dozen top UK designers, all working with CCAC, have called on the Government to reform the primary school curriculum.

We are honoured to receive this Commendation for our work across the 2023/2024 primary school year in the IFG Award’s new Climate Change Category.

We are pleased to announce that multidisciplinary designer and PhD student, Cassie Quinn, has been selected as one of CCAC’s Young Designer award winners.

We are delighted that accessories designer Clara Chu has been selected for CCAC’s Young Designer award.

We are delighted that interior architect Polly North has earned one of CCAC’s Young Designer awards

Co-design collaboration with Xavier de Kestelier of Hassell was mentioned in Coppermill Primary School’s recent OFSTED report

CCAC is delighted to welcome Dr Emma Rawlings Smith CGeog, FRGS, FHEA to our team of experts

CCAC’S keenly anticipated display of our pilot programme has opened at the V&A South Kensington

Top designers and teachers helped children to conceive their ideas for tackling flooding, extreme heat and cold.

Are you a practising young designer working in the fields of fashion, architecture, landscape design, or urban and rural planning?

CCAC is delighted to welcome education expert Deborah Outhwaite to our team of special advisors.

…and so to Bishop’s Stortford and Hockerill Anglo-European College, which is rated by The Good Schools Guide as “one of the most successful comprehensives in the country”.

CCAC is creating a new “emergent designers” stream, which over the coming months will support five rising designers to work with us on our co-design projects

How will we boil an egg in the year 2050? Jack Trench and a team of experts will be looking at the future of food in our latest co-design

As schools return for the Spring term, CCAC trustee and educator Kimberly Safford reflects on the opportunities and challenges for climate teaching in primary schools

STEM educator Bren Hellier has been providing expert classroom support for our Levitt Bernstein co-design. How has she found the experience?

On Friday 1 December, the CCAC review panel were presented with our Springfield children’s designs

We welcome primary educator, Bren Hellier, to CCAC, who will be working alongside the co-design teams.

Architects from Levitt Bernstein joined Springfield Primary School in Sale for a co-design collaboration imagining life in 2050

Three new design practices join CCAC’s eco-design programme: Arup, Levitt Bernstein, and Zaha Hadid Architects

A further award for CCAC designer Aurelie Fontan, pioneering development of natural pigments for textile dying.

We are very pleased to announce that Aalim Javari has joined Climate Change All Change as a Special Advisor.

Jack Trench, ace kitchen designer and interior fitout specialist, will get to grips with it with London Fields Primary School.

Evaluation reports covering the 5 co-design collaborations that took place in 2022 were delivered to CCAC at the beginning of the year.

Global heating maybe the cause, but 2023 demonstrates the effect of increasing temperatures is just extreme, it can be unusually cold, very wet, or extremely hot.

Leo Parker, Year 6 teacher, and Xavier de Kestelier, CCAC designer, reflect on the co-design project.

Take the CCAC climate change quiz and test your climate literacy!

Book recommendations designed to teach children about climate change.

Aurélie Fontan, creator of sustainable mushroom-leather, helps more than eighty 9 to 10-year-olds create outfits fit for radically changed extreme climates.