in Québec City, Canada, was themed 'Architecture, Energy and the Occupant's Perspective', with the ambition of positioning building inhabitants as key 'active' determinants of energy performance in 'passive' design through adaptive opportunities. Conference delegates committed to a Manifesto that embodied both the key longstanding priorities of PLEA and explicitly conveyed the priorities of the conference hosts. The Manifesto is examined in terms of how it captures and represents a shift in thinking that has occurred over the past few years, away from technological and technocratic solutions to comfort provisioning and towards reframing building energy consumption as a social and ethical challenge in which comfort plays a key role.
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