Last Wednesday WAG were among a select group of eco solution providers invited by Friends of the Earth to join Johnny Borrell of Razorlight at Oliver Rowe’s restaurant Konstam. The event was to help launch ‘The Big Ask’, a new campaign calling on the Government to introduce a strong climate change law which commits the UK to cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by at least three per cent every year. The restaurant only sources food from inside the M25, and whilst WAG have not yet succeeded in getting Razorlight to build an eco rock palace, we might have a negotiated a contract to supply the restaurant with crayfish poached from a London lake…

behind the scenes…

WAG’s statement at the Big Ask read as follows:
Through our work in teaching, academic research and building practice, WAG have developed a broad approach to thinking about sustainability in architecture. Rather than simply a providing a greenwash of sustainable technologies to be applied over outdated design strategies, architects and designers need to help society to visualise, produce, and live in new spaces and systems that positively contribute to local and global ecological systems.
Architectural objects are cultural artifacts that can connect the bodies and minds of their inhabitants out into the world, by making them more aware of our ecologies: social, emotional, spiritual, economic, environmental, and technological. We believe that the urgent new environmental demands being made upon our society to re-imagine itself with regard to planetary sustainability, can only be articulated and achieved through this holistic ecological design approach. It is about transforming the consumer as much as the commodity, and we think that we can help with both.