This programme investigates how carbon-negative products and buildings can be designed, manufactured and built without compromising architectural intent, contextual sensitivity or aesthetic ambition. Moving beyond sustainability as an add-on, the workshop positions carbon negativity as a design driver embedded from the earliest conceptual stages. Participants will explore how material systems, industrial by-products and low-energy manufacturing processes can be integrated into coherent architectural systems that respond to climate, culture and construction realities.

Through research, prototyping and speculative design, the school examines how constraints of context, functionality and fabrication can become generative tools rather than limitations. Central to the programme's agenda is preserving the flexibility, authority and authorship of the designer while engaging collaboratively with material innovation and manufacturing logics. The workshop will operate across scales, from product and building components to architectural assemblies questioning how form, performance and expression can emerge simultaneously. We ask how carbon-negative architecture can be spatially rich, materially expressive and contextually grounded, proposing new design methodologies where ecological responsibility and architectural quality are inseparable.