In September 2024, UK Architects Declare invited our first volunteer student ambassadors - Amy Thompson and Anushka Gupta - to join us, providing the perspectives of architectural students. It felt particularly important, as we marked five years since we launched in 2019, that we ensure our next phase of work is informed by and remains relevant to a wide range of current and emerging thought on architecture’s place in tackling the planetary emergency. You can read Amy and Anushka's reflections on their year with AD as our Student Ambassadors here.
We now wish to build on this by reframing the role to represent more broadly, and in depth, the next generation of built environment professionals, whether studying, on placement or in practice. We are therefore inviting emerging members of the profession to volunteer as Next-Gen Ambassadors.
We seek Next-Gen ambassadors for 2025/26 who can draw on their learning in academia and in practice to help shape our thinking, how we engage with different audiences, who we collaborate with, what support we offer signatories, and where we can best intervene to change the systems that perpetuate a degenerative built environment to ones that promote regenerative policies and actions.
Our Next-Gen Ambassadors group will review and build on the Theory of Change that Amy and Anushka have developed with other members of our Steering Group and define what their involvement will include.
More than a voice in the Steering Group, this new group will help us to:
Align our 12-point Declaration and 3 Regenerative Architecture principles towards academia;
Connect students and practitioners to new thinking and develop new learning pathways;
Encourage a fresh perspective in the profession towards creating a positive future for next generations;
Create young architects activated with regenerative knowledge and the agency to make change;
Build networks, organise events, create publications and generate any other initiatives the Next-Gen ambassadors might suggest.
The full Next-Gen Ambassadors role description role, along with the process to respond to this invitation, is here.
Deadline for application: 4th August.
10 July 2025