Empowering the Design Community to Drive Climate Action
Lot21 is a pioneering digital content platform designed to mobilise the global design community against climate change. It makes complex climate knowledge accessible and actionable for designers, educators, and innovators. By curating essential projects, policies, tools, and resources, Lot21 helps the design world play a meaningful role in achieving global decarbonisation goals. The platform serves as a single destination that bridges the gap between climate science and practical design, empowering professionals to shape a sustainable future.
The Client
Lot21 is a forward-thinking initiative dedicated to uniting the design industry in addressing the climate crisis. Recognising that designers are uniquely positioned to influence the built environment, Lot21 provides a hub where knowledge, tools, and strategies for decarbonisation converge.
With governments, corporations, and cities pledging net-zero targets by 2050, Lot21 helps ensure that the design sector has the resources and visibility needed to drive meaningful change. It serves not only as an archive of climate-forward design projects but also as an evolving ecosystem where academia, policy, and industry intersect.
The Challenge
The design community faced a critical knowledge gap: while climate-related resources exist, they are scattered, jargon-heavy, and often inaccessible to professionals with limited time. Without a centralised hub, it was difficult for architects, urban planners, and design students to stay informed about evolving solutions, tools, and regulations tied to climate action.
Lot21 needed a digital platform that could:
- Aggregate climate-related resources into one intuitive system.
- Translate complex, scientific content into accessible insights for designers.
- Showcase exemplary projects and academic work that inspire climate-conscious design.
- Offer practical tools (material guides) to directly support decarbonisation.
The challenge was to build not just a repository of information, but a dynamic, engaging knowledge platform that could scale globally and remain relevant across evolving climate policies and technologies.
The Solution
Lot21 is a digital hub designed to make climate knowledge accessible and actionable for the design community. The platform is organised into key modules—Solutions, Understanding, Projects, Resources, Policy, Academia, and Collected Works—so users can easily navigate and find relevant content.
Dynamic features like newsletters, archives, and updates on new initiatives keep the community informed, while the resource library offers guides, materials, that helps designers turn knowledge into action. The policy directory tracks national and international regulations, giving users insight into how policy shapes climate solutions.
Built on a scalable, future-ready infrastructure, Lot21 can grow with new resources and collaborations. The result is a streamlined ecosystem where design professionals and students can connect, learn, and contribute to decarbonising the built environment.
The Results
Lot21 has become a go-to knowledge hub for the design community, enabling professionals and students to take a more active role in climate action. By enhancing accessibility, climate resources are easier to navigate, removing barriers for busy users. The platform’s global reach allows designers worldwide to access tools, projects, and policies relevant to their context. Its integration of practical resources bridges the gap between awareness and implementation, providing actionable knowledge that supports real-world decarbonisation efforts. Features such as newsletters, archives, and academic showcases foster community engagement and a sense of collective effort in shaping a sustainable built environment. By transforming fragmented content into a unified, user-friendly platform, Lot21 equips the design community with the insights and resources needed to accelerate climate action and contribute to a net-zero future.
