Architecture schools in the US and Europe have
accepted climate change as a key challenge of this century fundamentally
impacting the future of the discipline and its curricula. In action plans and
strategic frameworks schools mapped out design methods offering to mitigate
climate change by providing techniques
of prediction, be they prescriptive, preemptive, preventive, or
prototypical. Thereby however, they leave out a reversed perspective: How can we design for a
future conceived of as unpredictable? This essay presents architectural
education as a space to explore how climate change converts our perspectives on
temporality. Featuring the projects of an de6 ixand the genres of climate fiction can challenge
normative notions of the future to access a spatial plurality, a ‘pluriverse,’
of nonlinear temporalities.
