GREENwichFORUM

Each year Mark Titman organises the GREENwich FORUM to see what is happening in green architecture, science, art, literature and ‘nature’ that can better effect our views of the built environment and our relationship with the natural world. Initially held at the Old Royal Naval College, in one of Christopher Wren’s buildings, these talks and exhibitions are presented here online to continue to offer the public a chance to chat, present some ideas and see what was shown and/or exhibited at the FORUM. Staff and past students, respected artists, architects, academics and practioners of various disciplines from around the world have taken part and you are invited to join us. The starting point for these debates was the “Lighthouse”project shown in January 2008. Shepherd Robson’s first zero-carbon prototype house signalled the beginning of a new approach for green architecture: where sustainability is no longer simply based on energy saving.

The subsequent keynote talk by Dr Ken Yeang on that day showed how this could include the incorporation of nature. Mark Titman takes this a step forward to now bring people together to suggest ways that nature can offer “Delight” to the existing structural “Firmness” and programmed “Commodity” which have become well investigated and prevalent over the last twenty years. Romance, science, art, poetry, film, engineering, medicine and philosophy come together here under the tree of green architecture.

London is known as the global epi-centre for Green architectural research and practice and the Greenwich University architecture school has the lead; with its international reputation of being the most up to date research institution for architectural green research. This website’s purpose is to further research and allow students and professionals of many disciplines the chance to reference cutting edge practices and new ideas in green architecture.