CCAC awarded a Commendation in the Thornton Education Trust’s Inspire Future Generations Awards 2024
Climate Change All Change is delighted to be awarded a Commendation for our work in primary schools last year. We would like to thank Thornton Education Trust, and their panel of judges for recognising CCAC’s work in primary schools – encouraging the importance and potential of design in the face of the climate crisis.
This was the first year that the prestigious Inspire Future Generations Awards included a Climate Change category. We were nominated alongside five other brilliant projects, from which one category winner and one commendation were selected. You can read more about the IFG Awards here.
CCAC’s trustees give heartfelt thanks to our wonderful designers, schools and supporters. This accolade and our co-design collaborations would not be possible without their hard work and dedication.
In the 2023/2024 school year five hundred children in seven primary schools in England worked for six weeks with sixteen designers supported by eight design firms.
In September 2023, architects from Levitt Bernstein asked students at Springfield Primary School, Manchester how their homes and local neighbourhood, Sale, could be adapted for changing climates in 2050. At the beginning of 2024, architecture firm DaeWhaKang Design sent designers to City Junior School, London for a co-design programme that encouraged children to think creatively about how their lives could be redesigned to accommodate climate change. In February, designer Jack Trench and a team of guest experts undertook a Future Food Space co-design programme with children at London Fields Primary School. This involved confronting taken-for-granted ways that we currently consume food and considering the more creative ways we may have to eat in the future. In April, William Tyndale Primary School, London was visited by Zaha Hadid Architects; and Clapham Manor Primary School took on ‘Climate Ready Clapham’ with Hassell Studio. Elsewhere, in Bristol Ashton Gate Primary School partnered with Arup Associates and AHMM Architects to co-design visions for Bristol’s harbourside in 2120. And at the end of the academic year, Zaha Hadid Architects completed a second programme this time with Thornhill Primary School in London. Together, they devised climate change resilient solutions for future water management.
This Commendation is a perfect way to begin 2025. It encourages us to build on the success of our 2023/2024 primary schools’ programme and continue to boost children’s climate literacy, design skills and creativity into 2025 and beyond. Renewed thanks to Thornton Education Trust for the Commendation and to our schools, designers and supporters for all their enthusiasm, expertise and hard work.
