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Climate Change: The Global Majority – Let’s Build (2024)

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The "Climate Change: The Global Majority" panel discussion aimed to spark a major industry shift by confronting how top-down, insular approaches to sustainability fail to account for global realities.

The conversation focused heavily on how the UK and international built environment sectors handle sustainability.  It was argued that climate strategies in architecture and engineering are too narrow, technical, and Eurocentric, ignoring the lived experiences and local expertise of the global majority.  The dialogue also highlighted how environmental policy and climate architecture must be adaptive across borders rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all Western framework.

Sarah Osei emphasised that the future of design must be rooted in social justice, diverse worldviews, and authentic representation rather than corporate checkbox diversity.



Images: Courtesy of Let’s Build


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SABO Works is a South London-based architectural and cultural practice founded by Sarah Osei, grounded in lived experiences, multiculturalism and social justice.

Sarah Osei is trained in Architecture and Spatial Practice, working at the intersections of ethnography, policy and architectures through methodologies of the diaspora. Her work is site-specific, amplifying the lesser-heard dialogues of the capital as a means towards celebrating them.  
‘SABO, pronounced [saa-boh], is derived from the Hausa language and means “something new.”

In this context, SABO also functions as an acronym, representing a lineage of names that not only reflects the methodologies of this architectural practice, but also acknowledges a duality of heritages, multicultural identities, and ongoing dialogues deeply rooted in the London periphery - where I was born and raised - but often journeying from beyond’ - Sarah, Amma/Adutwumwaa/Adams, Basoah, Osei.