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Emma Flynn of Astudio describes Tomorrow’s City, a collaborative vision for future cities.

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Tomorrow's City is a collaborative vision conceived by Astudio, professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University Rachel Armstrong, and the Tomorrow's Company to move beyond the current model of sustainability and propose practice-based solutions to our future cities. It is a vision that values cross-disciplinary collaboration as key to unlocking the answers to produce sustainable design.

Tomorrow's City is a bottom-up approach in which the future city is co-designed by communities, businesses and government, inspiring individuals and organisations to become active in the process of change by encouraging projects that can be contributed through maker movements and schools, as well as multidisciplinary professional and commercial partnerships.

It explores how we can best create long-term value in how we live and work: our energy, food, water, waste, transport and infrastructure, and looks to invert the current relationship between making a building and its environmental impact. We need architecture that does not just take from our environment, but also gives back to it in ways that are ecologically meaningful.

Emma Flynn
Astudio is a world-class architecture practice focused on reducing our buildings' impact on the environment. Our courage in the pursuit of new ways to reduce carbon and change behaviours earned us the title of Architectural Practice of the Year in 2012.

This achievement led us to establish our R&D group, whose role is to investigate new ways of seeing and thinking about the challenges we face in the industry.

With this group we explore visionary concepts that enable us to consider how we may cross boundaries, taking us out of architecture and to work with different fields of expertise that can help us with new ways to produce sustainable construction. We look to the future to propose buildable solutions today.