Sustenta - Laboratory for Sustainable Design
Architecture & Planning - Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Sustenta - Laboratory for Sustainable Design Details
The SUSTENTA - Laboratory for Sustainable Design (in Architecture, Urbanism and Design) is a research unit of the Research Centre of the Faculty of Architecture - University of Lisbon created in 2012 to support projects, studies or any research activities under the development of 'sustainable design'. \Its main goals are:\- promote methodologies of Sustainable Design for intervention in the territory, in terms of human occupation, regarding its uses and consumption, as an alternative to current production practices and economic consumption;\- Establish methods of analysis that allow the definition of scientific criteria for assessing all human productive activities (transformation of the environment, production of habitat and resource exploitation) in an ecological perspective;\- Explore design methods and the applications of a 'Green Architecture';\- Find the principles of compatibility, in the practice of construction of habitat, land management and production of artefacts, between protection and development of culture and economic and technological development of society;\- Find territories of intervention and application (within the productive fabric) making possible innovative research in contributing towards economic and technological development;\- Encourage the practice of research through the development of a network between education, civil society, and economic agents.
