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CHANGING PLANET SEMINAR WITH DUNCAN BAKER-BROWN

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Duncan Invited to Speak at Imperial College London Grantham Institute

Date: 05 Dec 2018
Time: 16:00 – 17:00
Venue: Business School 200, LT2
The Grantham Institute is located in building is #21 on this map.
Campus: South Kensington Campus

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This Wednesday Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “Changing Planet Seminar” hosted by The Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College. The subject of the seminar will revolve around the connection between the Designers, Products, Materials, Networks & Cities and examining their role in supporting the Circular Economy. It will also highlight the issue of new strategies for waste and disposable materials.

More details on subjects mentioned in the seminar can be found in The Re-Use Atlas: A designer’s guide to the circular economy

Duncan’s book is a highly illustrated ‘atlas’, taking the reader on a journey, via four distinct ‘steps’ (recycling, reuse, reduce, closed loop), from our current ‘linear economy’ towards a system emulating the natural world, i.e, a ‘circular economy’.  The atlas features over 25 detailed case studies describing design exemplars from the worlds of textile & fashion design, product design, interior architecture, architecture and urban design. The purpose is to show designers how they can successfully navigate the emerging field of resource management and the circular economy.

The Grantham Changing Planet Seminars run on a monthly basis during term time. They are held in the Grantham Institute Boardroom, and are followed by a drinks reception. Organisation of the seminar series is student led and supported by the Grantham Institute. The aim is to complement the diversity of research at Imperial College London and promote links to the broader environmental community in UK and beyond.

 

 

THE WASTE ZONE AT FUTUREBUILD 2019

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BBM returning to curate The Waste Zone once again

WasteZone Website

Futurebuild 2019 Website

Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL

Planning your trip 

Dates: Tuesday 5th March until Thursday 7th March 2019

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THE WASTE ZONE AT FUTUREBUILD 2019

“Futurebuild is the evolution of ecobuild and fulfilment of the bold vision for the future that we first announced following the acquisition of the event at the end of 2016. Futurebuild 2019 brings together opinion-shapers, decision-makers and product innovators under a common purpose to explore the latest technologies and approaches, and debate the biggest issues facing the build environment – now and in the future – both in the UK and overseas.”

The Waste Zone will return to this year’s Futurebuild with new and extended features. Curated by our very own Duncan Baker-brown, the event space will contain a new Circular Economy Hub, a marketplace and new platform dedicated to direct interaction between visitors and manufacturers. This will allow for presentations of new and emerging materials, systems and groundbreaking ideas that will shape the future of sustainable construction industry. The Hub will be held in a unique and refreshing format of beach huts, developed and provided by the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton. The exhibition space will be complemented by the Waste Zone seminar programme, which due to extraordinary success of 2018 will be further extended providing additional audience spaces. This years session will explore the ideas revolving around use of waste materials in the construction process and the use of existing and future buildings as material stores for the future.

With the focus is on creating a truly waste free experience, apart from the reusable exhibition beach huts, Futurebuild is also calling out for Cradle to Cradle Certified™ suppliers to provide their support in bring the Waste Zone to life.

The WasteZone discussions will be supported by an inspirational exhibition of the products, materials and buildings, as well as new digital platforms and films, which are enabling an emergent circular economy and proving “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the ‘wrong place’.

THE WASTE ZONE AT FUTUREBUILD 2019

 

 

DUNCAN TO SPEAK AT UNMAKING WASTE 2018

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Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use

When: Conference runs from 20th-23rd September 2018

Duncan will be speaking on Friday 21st September at 15:45

Registration link

Location: University of South Australia (UniSA) Hawke Building, UniSA West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000

Full details

This Friday Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “The Unmaking Waste 2018” international conference in Adelaide. The conference will be hosted by the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the University of South Australia.

“Building upon the achievements of our first conference, Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place (May 2015), Unmaking Waste 2018 will be focused on the problem of consumption itself, and its role in increasing emissions, resource depletion and environmental degradation. The following themes will be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective:

  1. Eco-Design and Development:
    Designing, defining and managing objects, buildings, precincts and systems to reduce resource and energy use, and thus increase environmental and human well-being.
  2. Sustainable Consumption:
    Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
  3. Waste Minimization:
    Reducing waste and pollution at all scales, in all domains and activities, and in all places, and transforming this waste and pollution into states of greater value for reuse.
  4. Circular Economy:
    Optimizing social, material and economic relations and the value of goods and services to further the goals of the Circular Economy, including product and environment life-extension, reuse and repair.”

Further details on the event can be found here.

UNMAKING WASTE 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use

When: 20th-23rd September 2018

Registration link

Location: University of South Australia (UniSA)

Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use When: September 20-23 2018 Registration link Location: University of South Australia (UniSA) 
In September Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “The Unmaking Waste 2018” international conference. The conference will be hosted by the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the University of South Australia.

“Building upon the achievements of our first conference, Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place (May 2015), Unmaking Waste 2018 will be focused on the problem of consumption itself, and its role in increasing emissions, resource depletion and environmental degradation. The following themes will be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective:

  1. Eco-Design and Development:
    Designing, defining and managing objects, buildings, precincts and systems to reduce resource and energy use, and thus increase environmental and human well-being.
  2. Sustainable Consumption:
    Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
  3. Waste Minimization:
    Reducing waste and pollution at all scales, in all domains and activities, and in all places, and transforming this waste and pollution into states of greater value for reuse.
  4. Circular Economy:
    Optimizing social, material and economic relations and the value of goods and services to further the goals of the Circular Economy, including product and environment life-extension, reuse and repair.”

Further details on the event can be found here.

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

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Interreg Research Project Conference

Location: Ilec Conference Centre, 47 Lillie Road, Fulham, London, SW6 1UD 

Dates: 26th March 09:30 – 16:30

Visitor Registration – Free to attend

Conference page

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

Duncan will be speaking at “Materials of Architecture 2018” tomorrow at the Ilec conference centre. As part of his current research project he will be discussing product re-use and buildings as material banks.

Teaming up with ASBP, Interreg and Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB&WRC) the research project is making significant progress towards the design and manufacture of the first insulation prototypes made from biobased and recycled materials.

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

The project is supported by the INTERREG VA France (Channel) England programme and receives financial support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The University of Brighton is one of the English partners of the SB&WRC project. Their deep involvement in alternative building technologies has led to impressive experiments and results that continue to inspire researchers and practitioners. Duncan, Dr. Ryan Woodard, Senior Research Fellow within the School of Environment and Technology, and Ben Bosence, an expert in building conservation are currently working together to create one of the insulation prototypes.

The full programme and exhibitor list can be found here.

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

DAY ONE FOR THE WASTE ZONE AT ECO BUILD 2018

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The Waste Zone at Ecobuild 2018

“Ecobuild has been the number one event for the built environment for over 14 years, with change and innovation always at the heart. It connects and inspires the entire built environment specification chain.”

Following the success of the Waste Zone at Ecobuild back in 2013 BBM have been invited back to curate this years event. Below are several shots of the opening events yesterday!

The WasteZone will help you navigate a route away from our current take, make, throw away society towards intelligent closed loop systems where waste is seen as food for either an organic natural ‘bio-sphere’ or the humanmade ‘tech-sphere’.

The WasteZone is a temporary place dedicated to the discussion of the issues & huge potentials of seeing waste as a valuable resource, not a problem. Come and hear talks by experts from worlds as diverse as resource management, cutting-edge design & architecture, politics, product and systems design, as well as a new generation of forward thinking suppliers, urban miners, up-cyclers, hackers and material bankers.

The WasteZone discussions will be supported by an inspirational exhibition of the products, materials and buildings, as well as new digital platforms and films, which are enabling an emergent circular economy and proving “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place”.

Thursday’s line up includes:

DAY ONE FOR THE WASTE ZONE AT ECO BUILD 2018

 

Full details can be found here.

Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL

Planning your trip 

Running from: Tuesday 6th March until Thursday 8th March

Visitor Registration – Free to attend

ECOBUILD 2018 IS UNDERWAY

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The Waste Zone at Ecobuild 2018

WasteZone

Eco Build 2018 Website

Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL

Planning your trip 

Dates: Tuesday 6th March until Thursday 8th March

Visitor Registration – Free to attend

“Ecobuild has been the number one event for the built environment for over 14 years, with change and innovation always at the heart. It connects and inspires the entire built environment specification chain.”

Following the success of the Waste Zone at Ecobuild back in 2013 BBM have been invited back to curate the WasteZone at this years event which starts today.

The WasteZone will help you navigate a route away from our current take, make, throw away society towards intelligent closed loop systems where waste is seen as food for either an organic natural ‘bio-sphere’ or the humanmade ‘tech-sphere’.

ECOBUILD 2018 IS UNDERWAY

The WasteZone is a temporary place dedicated to the discussion of the issues & huge potentials of seeing waste as a valuable resource, not a problem. Come and hear talks by experts from worlds as diverse as resource management, cutting-edge design & architecture, politics, product and systems design, as well as a new generation of forward thinking suppliers, urban miners, up-cyclers, hackers and material bankers.

The WasteZone discussions will be supported by an inspirational exhibition of the products, materials and buildings, as well as new digital platforms and films, which are enabling an emergent circular economy and proving “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place”.

Duncan and Ian will both be running several of the discussions, click here for full details of the programme.

Recent press for the Waste Zone:

“Time’s up on waste” – University of Brighton article

“Slashing waste is university focus” – The Argus newspaper