CHRIS FREMANTLE

The Designing Environments for Life programme at the Scottish Institute for Advanced Studies.

How can we address the gap between the two distinct meanings of environment: that which surrounds us as haptic, somatic and experiential; and that which is planned, managed and described as an ‘urban environment’ or a ‘learning environment’ or a ‘fragile environment’?

Drawing together anthropologists, architects, designers, artists and other disciplines, we are exploring this complex double meaning particularly in relation to practices.