Arup is our Founding Neighbourhood Partner
Now celebrating 75 years of founder Ove Arup’s ‘Total Architecture’ approach of integrated design, Arup as a firm continues to emphasise the value of doing rewarding work that addresses the most urgent questions facing the built environment: How do we design places that will improve health and wellbeing? How can we create social value and achieve a more inclusive, equitable and just society? How can we enhance our communities’ resilience to climate change? How do we transition to a zero carbon world, adopting circular economy principles in the process? Ultimately asking, how do we respect planetary boundaries now and in the future, while reversing damage done to date?
As an interdisciplinary firm of designers, engineers, and city specialists, we seek to contribute and collaborate on solving these huge challenges. Owned in trust by our employees, we have the freedom to invest significantly in R&D; in an innovation culture championed by Arup University; in partnerships with the likes of C40 Cities, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and the Resilience Shift; and through donating profits into a global network of regional community engagement programmes.
Like the LNS Trust, Arup is invested in protecting and enhancing the value of our urban neighbourhoods. Arup undertakes many rewarding design projects that range in scale and typology, but they are always ambitious in their pursuit of humanitarian outcomes.
“Arup is proud to be part of the debut cohort of The London Neighbourhood Scholarship Trust’s Neighbourhood Partners. The Trust’s vision to help build thriving future neighbourhoods through architectural investment is a clear and tangible contribution to the sustainable development of our cities - a mission that Arup is committed to.
Support for the next generation of design talent is fundamental to ensuring the ongoing vitality of our cities. London is not only our global headquarters, it’s home to over 3,000 Arupians. The city is also home to a growing population of young people whose originality, ingenuity and tenacity is not to be underestimated. This is why Arup is excited to support LNS. The Trust gives us the opportunity to welcome all future scholars to London’s growing design community and champion them throughout their career development. It is our intention to empower those who may be unsure of pursuing the design career they dream about, and help them navigate as they go. It is yet to be seen precisely what kind of architects and designers the 21st century will need, but the best ones will likely be those who are willing to expand the limits of the discipline and to pioneer new ways of working and thinking.
Arup is committed to London’s incredible design ecosystem. We look forward to the opportunities presented by partnering with LNS. Our hope is that the urgent questions confronting the built environment excite London’s ambitious young people enough to consider dedicating their talent towards answering. These are long-term problems requiring intergenerational engagement and the greater the diversity of participants the closer we come to achieving a sustainable future for all.”