The cry with which Greta Thunberg addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2019 lends its title to this book, which advocates for architecture as a reactive domain capable of playing a transcendent role in the current ecological, climate, and social crisis, and of increasing the resilience of urban ecosystems and the protection of biodiversity. It explores the design challenges and opportunities that arise in these times of crisis when cities and buildings can no longer be described as isolated objects but as nodes of interconnected material and social systems, in constant interaction with the atmosphere, geosphere, and other living material systems, through specific architectural and urban approaches.
From a critical-speculative perspective, five complementary themes – metabolism, obsolescence, atmosphere, interaction, and biodiversity – are addressed through conversations between internationally renowned critical theorists and Spanish architecture teams whose exemplary practices have shown sensitivity to the climate emergency.