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We are architecture. We are entwined with each other, our designed environments, other species, infrastructures, technology, systems and buildings. We mutually affect one another. We are mutually dependent. Our emotions, our memory, our health, our functioning, our interactions are all informed, shaped and reshaped by the designed environments and architecture that surround us; and we create and re-create those spaces on a daily basis through our inhabitation, our perceptions and our action or inaction... RAPS is characterised by a departure from narrowly instrumental debates and instead geared towards re-thinking architectural design and research practice for sustainability with the aim to advocate innovative approaches and transformational change. This initiative seeks to explore the role of architecture and architects in practicing design for and through sustainability. We argue that architecture / architects have an important and proactive role in this transformation.RAPS aims to..