DESIGN
Architecture and design can significantly improve and enhance rights.
They can tackle discrimination and improve people’s physical and mental health, elevating entire communities. But lack of awareness, commitment, and resources remains a major constraint to human rights-centred design.
Click the overarching and stage-specific principles below to review the guiding questions across this stage. These questions will help you to identify the main human rights risks and opportunities and develop a tailored action plan.
Materials are selected and sourced responsibly, with regard to their social and environmental impacts
Guiding questions
Are materials selected with regard to minimising harmful social and environmental impacts?
Has due diligence been conducted on the materials supply chain, to minimise social and environmental risks, including labour abuses and forced displacement?
Are there opportunities to reduce climate impacts and generate new job opportunities through materials supply chain innovation?
Stories and illustrative examples
International standards and tools
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
KnowTheChain - forestry snapshot
Sustainable Development Goals:
- Target 11c: Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilising local materials.
- Target 8.4: Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead.