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°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Wiltshire is seeking a new chair. This key leadership role is a two year post that heads and represents °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ membership across the county.

We are delighted to begin announcing the winners of the 2021 °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Student Prizes for the graduating cohort at universities across °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Wessex and °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ South West. Supported by the °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Local Initiative Fund (LIF) and °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ branches, the awards aim to recognise emerging talent, connect graduating students with the professions and °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ, and inspire future generations.

The role of Chair of °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Plymouth branch is available from September 2021. This key leadership role is a two year post that leads and represents °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ membership across Plymouth and South Hams.

Sarah Lee, of Stride Treglown’s Plymouth studio, has been elected as Chair Elect of °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ South West until August 2021. Sarah will become the next Regional Chair of °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ South West on 1 September 2021 following current chair Jane Hamlyn.

For the third in °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ South West’s current series of People Place Planet events, co-chairs of °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Somerset Mark Raby and Tom Gascoyne welcomed Alison Brooks of Alison Brooks Architects, whose work has garnered countless awards including the Stephen Lawrence Prize and the Stirling Prize.

Architects have an important role to play in addressing the climate emergency, but to be effective they must first be climate literate. To help frame the key concepts and priorities, °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ South West invited three prominent architect-writer-educators – Sumita Singha, Judit Kimpian, and Sofie Pelsmakers – for an hour-long presentation and short Q&A session as part of its People, Planet, Place series.

Since 2020, People, Place, Planet has been the core theme for °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ South West events and activities. Key to this has been a series of talks held in conjunction with Wessex region, which this year, will include at least one event per month. The virtual world has enabled us to secure many important speakers and reach a much wider audience than we would have considered possible a short time ago. Now part way through the programme, what have we learnt so far?

The first in the ‘People, Place, Planet’ series of online events for 2021 was an interview with the incumbent Mayor of Bristol and recent recipient of an °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Honorary Fellowship, Marvin Rees.

We have seen a year of activism, campaigning, challenging inequality in architecture and society, but also a year of knowledge sharing, upskilling, and optimism for the future. Join °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Wessex chair Tom Bell as he looks back at 2020, and what 2021 might bring.

°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Bristol and Bath ran a series of lunch and learn events over summer 2020 as part of a knowledge and learning programme. Architecture & Climate and Architecture & Innovation were recorded live events hosted by Katharine Hegarty, Noma Architects and are now available on the °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Bristol & Bath playlist on the °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ YouTube channel.