UNESCO Chair

Project Lead:

Rowland Keable

2016 - present

EBUKI has contributed as UNESCO chair since 2016. This is unfunded work, yet it underpins much of EBUKI’s work, and is the link to the worldwide Earth Building network.

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CALL FOR INPUT: If you’ve been an earth building educator between 2021 and 2023, we need to hear from you so we can submit all your activities to UNESCO by Mid-February 2024!

A lot has happened since we last reported at the end of 2020: students engaged, papers written, meetings and conferences attended, we need it all please!

This file has 8 tabs to step you through the details UNESCO are looking for, and this document has the written content structure. Last year’s submission as a pdf can be found lower down this page. Please download or make a copy, fill in, send to Rowland@ebuki.co

We couldn’t do this without you - thank you!

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The most recent full report (2019-2020) can be found here. UNESCO only publishes the report in French. Ebuki has translated it into English.

Here are a few of the images - the darker the red, the more activity in that country:

Figure 1 Diploma training courses delivered by the UNESCO Chair and its network 2019 2020

Figure 2 Qualification training and people trained by year and country

Figure 3 Non degree training provided by the UNESCO Chair and its network 2019 2020

Figure 4 Non degree training and people trained by year and country

Figure 5 Scientific research carried out by the UNESCO Chair and its network 2019 2020

Figure 6 Scientific research carried out by the UNESCO Chair and its network 2019 2020 by country

Figure 7 Conferences organized and number of participants per country

Figure 8 Conferences organized by the Chair and its network 2019 2020

Figure 9 Conferences presented by the UNESCO Chair and its network (2019 2020)

Figure 10 Conferences presented by the Chair and its network by country and by year

UNESCO page, Proterra, EBE, and/or each country's organisation, https://terra.hypotheses.org/

Relevant EBUKI links: LBWEZ, Jump, NOS Review & EBE

Pdf of our 2019-2020 submission is now available here

• Need & Challenge - why it's needed

  Need to rectify the lack of information across whole earth building sector from education to research and wider public acceptance. Regulatory acceptance, across the whole world, requires a global approach.

• Aim - what to achieve

  Better communication between institutions at national, regional and global level, to facilitate better understanding within the working group and far beyond.

• Inputs - what resources are utilised

  Every two years all partners are required to report on their activities in education and training, events, publications, and all else that is relevant.

• Activities - what happens

  Every few years there are meetings which review the state of earth building education and research across the different global members. Typically these are given a theme.

• Outputs - what gets produced

  Web page, forming a central hub of information

• Outcomes - what change happens

  The sense of a global movement towards building cultures which use the old to embrace the new.

• How the change is measured

  Through the biannual surveys, by the growth in the members of the UNESCO chair, and through the outputs of the web page.

  Additionally change is measured through the growth in links between the various UNESCO chair members, institutions and organisations, and the co-operation which occurs.