Event Description

UKGBC is calling on stakeholders across the built environment to engage in a new systems change programme to enable the transformation to a net zero, climate resilience and regenerative built environment.

Systems change refers to the process of making significant and lasting transformations to how a system operates, with the aim of addressing complex problems and achieving positive outcomes without unintended consequences. It involves shifting the fundamental structures, rules, and relationships within a system to create long-term and sustainable solutions. Instead of merely treating the symptoms or individual components, systems change focuses on understanding and addressing the root causes of a problem and involves transformational – not incremental – change. 

Our approach to addressing the climate emergency is failing. We need a radical transformation of the systems we operate within to achieve a net zero, climate resilient and regenerative built environment. We need to challenge our assumptions and business as usual way of working to enable a dramatic paradigm shift that reconciles humans and the rest of nature. 
 

Following our 6 month journey to date, we are reconvening the Systems Change programme participants to discuss the findings and outcomes of this exploratory and radical process. The 5 Systems Change fractal groups that were formed at the beginning of this programme will share learnings unearthed whilst digging deep into the following themes:

1. Purpose of built environment, value/values
2. Finance/investment/post growth
3. Voices/stakeholders/collaboration/relationshipsl
4. Power / Leadership / belonging / behaviours / structures
5. Materials ecosystem/circularity/where are materials coming from?

This event will be the ‘Big Ending’ to UKGBC’s Systems Change Programme – the end of this process, but the beginning of what is to come.

If you are passionate about systems change and sustainability, this event could be of interest to you. It is particularly of interest for change makers and leaders who are trying to make change within their organizations, or wider across client groups, supply chain or sub tier contractors.