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ACAN! - a network of individuals within architecture and related built environment professions campaigning for immediate action on climate change!

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25/08/2026

🗣️ Some words from one of our current Steering Group members, Jeremy Till, on why you should apply for next year!

Nominations for our 2026-27 Steering Group are open for one more week, until 1st September. If you’re passionate about climate action in architecture, have a few hours a month to spare, and want to play a key role in helping ACAN advance its mission, then apply via the link in our bio

We’re also holding a Q&A call this Thursday, 27th August at 6:30pm, where you can speak to a current Steering Group member about your candidacy, the role, and the application process.

🔗 Join the call: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88314940061?pwd=V31y6dB95G3abXpXGarc56R7BObySn.1

🔗 Apply now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xIorI8iS5rFpPoff1fyE0uVXq7xmTUQ8RQqt-YFy0ZY/viewform?pli=1&edit_requested=true&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

22/08/2026

Thinking of getting involved with ACAN over the next year? Nominations are open to stand for the ACAN Steering Group 2026–27, with the deadline now extended to 1 September!

We’ll be holding two Q&A calls next week with members of the current Steering Group

Come along to either session to discuss your candidacy or ask questions about the process, role and all things ACAN

📅 24th August 1pm BST + 27th August 6:30pm BST
📍Online (Zoom)

We encourage applications from under-represented groups and across the wider built environment professions

🔗 Link to join 24 August call: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87651218277?pwd=Zc0eVHd58Pocai8ybYHC3q849P3DoY.1

🔗 Link to join 27 August call: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88314940061?pwd=V31y6dB95G3abXpXGarc56R7BObySn.1

18/08/2026

Thinking of getting involved with ACAN over the next year? Nominations are open to stand for the ACAN Steering Group 2026–27, and we’re holding two Q&A calls with members of the current Steering Group

Come along to either session to discuss your candidacy or ask questions about the process, role and all things ACAN

📅 24th August 1pm BST + 27th August 6:30pm BST
📍Online (Zoom)

Plus, the deadline for applications has now been extended to 1st September!

We encourage applications from under-represented groups and across the wider built environment professions

🔗 Link to join 24 August call: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87651218277?pwd=Zc0eVHd58Pocai8ybYHC3q849P3DoY.1

🔗 Link to join 27 August call: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88314940061?pwd=V31y6dB95G3abXpXGarc56R7BObySn.1

03/08/2026

📢 STAND FOR ACAN STEERING GROUP 2026–27

Want to help shape the direction of ACAN over the next year? Nominations are now open to stand for the ACAN Steering Group 2026–27!

We’re looking for 9 members to join the Steering Group, and encourage applications from under-represented groups and across the wider built environment professions.

The Steering Group is responsible for:

- Overseeing ACAN’s thematic groups and movement support
- Decisions on events, partnerships and public statements
- Supporting finances, administration and membership
- Organising the annual election cycle, AGM and social events

The Steering Group meets once a month, 6.30–8.30pm, with meetings held hybrid in-person/Zoom. Members should expect around 3 hours a month for meetings plus up to 6 hours for other roles within the organisation.

To stand, you must be a paid ACAN member and have one other ACAN member support your nomination

Nominations close at 5pm BST on Sunday 23 August 2026.

Voting will open later that month and close on 21 September, with the new Steering Group announced at ACAN’s AGM on 15 October.

Ready to stand? Fill in the Google Form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xIorI8iS5rFpPoff1fyE0uVXq7xmTUQ8RQqt-YFy0ZY/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true

For more information on the role, see this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ea8BXlGCeKfKEyxUJB_o6iWOXHpT9TcpNExrPmVk58A/edit?usp=drivesdk

13/07/2026

We’re so excited to welcome our new ACAN Student Ambassador Team for 2026-27! We received a fantastic range of applications, and as such have expanded our team to seven members!

Our team:
Anjana Abi
Charlotte Seaton
Isobel Reidy
Jamie McVay
Joel Kiragu
Meha Patel

The team will be supported by Joe Bass, the current Student Ambassador, and in the coming weeks, the Ambassadors will collectively form a vision and programme for the next year of student climate action!

Our new Ambassadors bring together experience from national and international student action groups and initiatives, and will seek to expand StuCAN’s reach and impact across the UK and beyond, empowering students to make their education more climate literate and prepare the next generation of built environment professionals to design for the climate and biodiversity crises.

As part of this, our team will also be consolidating and sharing knowledge built from our previous StuCAN Festivals and student initiatives. If you are a student, educator or practitioner, and would like to collaborate with our team, explore climate action at your university, or share your work with us, please do get in touch.

Stay tuned as we share more about the team, our hopeful vision for this year, and upcoming events and initiatives!

11/07/2026

📢 Support our new campaign: LESS TASTE: MORE COUNTING!

What if architectural awards valued carbon performance as highly as aesthetics?

As part of ACAN!’s Less Carbon: More Truth campaign, Less Taste : More Counting is calling for greater transparency in architectural awards systems, with the aim of making carbon and other measures of sustainability central to how projects are judged.

We're looking for volunteers to join the campaign working group and help shape our campaign from the ground up.

Initially, this will involve one or two brainstorming meetings, where we'll develop ideas and allocate roles including letter drafting, graphics, PR and communications, and evidence gathering.

The roles will not be onerous, but the ambition is significant: to help change the value system on which architectural awards are based, and push for greater accountability in how the profession defines architectural excellence.

If you'd like to support the campaign, register your interest via the link in the comments below. We'd love to have you involved!

05/07/2026

Throwback to Futurebuild Day 2 at the ACAN stand! 🌱

Which session was your favourite?

📸 Anzir Boodoo

26/06/2026

‼️Tomorrow! Community Retrofit Open Day: warmer homes, lower bills, greener futures

How can homes in Newham become warmer, healthier and more energy efficient, without losing sight of comfort, materials and community knowledge?

Join us at Durning Hall, Forest Gate, for an open afternoon bringing together retrofit advice, material displays, housing models and conversations with local Retrofit Ambassadors.

The event will include practical guidance on energy saving, fabric-first improvements, natural building materials, renewable technologies and staged approaches to home retrofit. Residents will also be able to visit the Retrofit Advice & Energy Clinic to discuss where to start and what changes may be suitable for their homes.

Location: Durning Hall, Forest Gate
Date: Saturday 27th June
Time: 2:00pm–5:00pm

No booking required — just drop in. Families welcome.

Part of the Newham Retrofit Lab, funded through a University of East London Knowledge Exchange Grant, led by Teresa Serrano (University of East London), in collaboration with ACAN, Repowering London, Newham Council, Sustainability Research Institute at University of East London and the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability (RDCS)

25/06/2026

🌳LESS MONOCULTURE, MORE BIODIVERSITY: Campaign launch webinar

📅 Friday 3 July�🕐 1–2pm�🔗 Register via link at end of post

Timber is, quite rightly, promoted as the future for low-carbon, sustainable construction. The reality, however, is much more nuanced than a simple substitution exercise.

Join us for the launch of ACAN’s new Less Monoculture, More Biodiversity campaign and hear from ACAN Sweden on how industrial forestry and timber production affect biodiversity, climate, social justice and the timber we use, and what we can learn from alternative practices.

Focusing on Sweden, one of the UK’s key suppliers of construction timber, we’ll explore the impacts of current extractive forestry practices under a growing demand, the gaps in legislation and certification that enable them, and look towards case studies of alternative practices that can replace these.

We’ll discuss:
- The global picture of timber supply and production, the history behind it and politics today
- The volume based, industrial value chain and its impacts on climate, biodiversity and timber
- Alternative craft-based value chains - their potential and challenges with examples from Sweden
- ACAN’s campaign response ‘more biodiversity, less monoculture’

Featuring speakers:
- Oscar Carlsson, Björg Form & Arkitektur
- Maria Carlsson, Björg Form & Arkitektur and ACAN Sweden
- Anna Holst, ACAN Sweden
- Malin Nylander, ACAN Sweden

Whether you’re an architect, joiner, supplier, campaigner, student or concerned individual, this event offers insight into the often opaque practices of timber production and specification, and what we can do to change them.
�🔗 Register here: https://acan-webinar-forests-and-biodiversity-sustainable-timber.eventbrite.co.uk/

18/06/2026

Free event tomorrow! ‼️ Heat, Inequality and the Built Environment

📍 Somers Town Community Association, London
📅 Saturday 20 June
🎟️ Free – register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-are-we-melting-heat-inequity-and-the-built-environment-tickets-1991232588274

What if the heat trapping our streets is not inevitable, but a design failure we can reverse? What can Somers Town learn from ACAN globally?

Join us tomorrow at Somers Town Community Association for ‘Why Are We Melting? Heat, Inequity and the Built Environment’, a session run by London Doughnut Economy Coalition (LDEC) in collaboration with ACAN.

LDEC and ACAN will open the session by naming the principles at the root of urban overheating: surface, density, exposure and inequity.

Cities trap heat because of the materials we chose, the infrastructure we built, and the communities we left most vulnerable to the consequences. The urban heat island is not a natural condition, it is a design failure, and design can reverse it.

You will also hear from our ACAN International chapters on how they manage heat, before the session opens up for a discussion. Together, participants will examine what the neighbourhood’s streets could become.

Forming part of the Melting Metropolis programme, the event brings together local communities, researchers, designers and practitioners to exchange ideas on heat resilience, housing and climate adaptation.

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