Callum Richardson, Year 5

MINISTRY OF THE INVESTITABLE

The ministry of the inevitable is a speculative building that aims to inspire greater participation in the environment from those making the decisions. The ministry is not a place for high tech research but instead intends to invoke an emotional call for action where experience, information, and collective education inform and contribute to policy. Our climates are fragile and ever changing as we enter the age of the Anthropocene, our effect of the landscape is increasing exponentially. Yet our policies, decisions and societies continuously have a disconnect with the environment. A substantial barrier to broader implementation of climate change-related policies is perception. For too long it has been seen as an issue which only affects the global south, the project aims to challenge this and will look at the United Kingdom, more specifically Thanet island.

Much like our own environment, the building is not static but rather a decade long performance whose continuation is symbolic of our failures to solve the ever-growing climate emergency. The architecture reacts dynamically to the landscape. As time goes in the building decays and moves across the landscape. The project becomes investigative narrative of our ever-changing landscapes. Its legacy is one of collective failure, a call to action if not too late.