They can be messy, congested, dirty and chaotic places.

When asked to compare their personal values with that of a business, they expressed how they wished to use their knowledge and skills to make a difference in the world.I am sure this is magnified millions of times across the world.

They are not naive, most already have served time in industry, but they each hold a set of values which I found profound and uplifting..The second reason to be hopeful comes whenever I investigate, look into, or hold discussions in and across many spheres.I see and hear stories about people doing great things with an intent of making the world a better, more sustainable place in the most holistic sense.

Specifically, I have had meetings with two of the organisations I partner with: my local Watermill Theatre, which, as well as producing truly magical theatre, has an outreach scheme that touches hundreds of lives, and the World Land Trust, which is actively protecting habitat and species diversity around the world.With both organisations, we are looking at ways to work together to magnify our individual impact..

I see academics, businesses, and organisations of people focusing on the problems that face us, not just out of good intent but out of facing cold, hard realities.

This is resulting in money, the fuel of the world economy, being slowly but steadily diverted from the old economy to a new one.For example, PRiSM allows us to generate a design very quickly.

We can then use a range of simulation tools to optimise and refine the design, in order to deliver the best possible solution for a specific site.We are able to consider a variety of architectural and environmental factors: energy balance, people movements, overshadowing, architectural aesthetics, and placemaking.

This gives us much better, and much more considered, designs at site level.. Additionally, our work on REM teaches us that if the algorithm creates an unusual outcome, the solution is to fix the ruleset, not the algorithmic model.Over time, this creates vastly improved results, as the rules and algorithmic designs get better and better.