Led by Jonathon Keats, a conceptual artist, and Prof. Dr. Ralf Kilian from the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP, Cultural Heritage Research Division, in collaboration with the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) and the Goethe-Institut

In order to contend with extreme and imminent climate change, and to sustain cultural cohesion in the inhospitable environments that may result, we need to learn how to adapt and live with extremes by embracing climatically appropriate architecture and infrastructure. Combining the sciences and the arts, The Consortium for Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage forecasts future climates in terms of geographically-based climate analogs – elucidating the future climate of any given location by identifying places that currently have the anticipated climate conditions – helping communities to adapt to climate change through preemptive modification of the built environment.

Jonathon Keats and Prof. Dr. Ralf Kilian lead the project to explore climate adaptation in architectural heritage. Their work bridges research and design, fostering international dialogue on climate-adapted living and building.