Degree Show 2025

The Mackintosh Climate Action Network (The MackCAN!) is a student-initiated movement in the Mack to expand the climate literacy of the student body. Its role is also to confront the overwhelming volume of confusion, disinformation, and greenwashing surrounding the built environment’s response to the climate emergency, including the use of ‘green materials’ or mandated carbon calculations.

Climate education is at a crossroads, and we reject the business-as-usual approach to design by focusing on hands-on education that advocates for a regenerative, participatory, and equitable approach to understanding and dealing with the complexities of designing in the Anthropocene. Through engagement, the MackCAN sees itself as part of the answer for a generation of graduates who meet the climate challenge head-on and push the boundaries of what we accept to be sustainable design in architecture.