UNMAKING WASTE 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

20/06/2018

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:

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.
Sustainable Consumption:
Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
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.
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

25/04/2018

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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

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.

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.

DAY ONE FOR THE WASTE ZONE AT ECO BUILD 2018

07/03/2018

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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:

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

06/03/2018

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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

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.

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

DUNCAN SPEAKS AT UAL’S GREEN WEEK

08/02/2018

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Central Saint Martins Green Week – PLURAL FUTURE #9 Up On The Roof

When: 14th February 2018 18:00 – 20:00

Location: Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA

Room: LVMH E003

To reserve your place email: g.j.campbell@csm.arts.ac.uk (UAL staff and students only)

Further details

“PLURAL FUTURES acknowledges the broad range of approaches to sustainability within the art and design practices of Central Saint Martins students and staff. The Green Week programme aims to showcase a snap shot of those approaches, find connections and provoke further discourse and action.”

Duncan will lead an architectural evening at The Central St Martins campus on Wednesday 14th February. The talk will focus on case studies from his book “The Re-Use Atlas” followed by a workshop/discussion into making better use of Central Saint Martin’s existing roof terrace.

The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer’s Guide to the Circular Economy

Since the Waste House was completed in June 2014, Duncan Baker-Brown has been working on a book that considers the challenges and opportunities presenting designers and clients who wish to ‘mine the anthropocene’, i.e.work with existing places, communities and stuff previously mined and processed.

This 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’. Featuring over 25 detailed case studies describing design exemplars from the worlds of textile & fashion design, product design, interior architecture, architecture and urban design, its purpose is to show designers how they can successfully navigate and exploit the emerging field of resource management and the circular economy. Each step is supplemented with an in depth interview with an expert who is successfully tackling one or more of these challenges that present all designers today. This atlas has contributory essays from, among others, Prof. Walter Stahel of the Product-Life Institute, and Prof. Jonathan Chapman who wrote ‘Emotionally Durable Design’.

Optimistic take on the sustainable design
Includes illustrative, international projects at different scales
Shows designers and students how they can positively affect change in this area

Case study links:

Adidas training shoe, developed in partnership with Parley for the oceans

Hy-fi organic compostable tower, by The Living

Rotor and Rotor DC

RE-USE AND THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

31/01/2018

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This evening at The De La Warr Pavilion

**Sold Out**

Starting at 18:00pm

Location

Further details can be found here

Duncan will present a talk entitled “Can Designers Save the World?” which will reflect on the issues and inspiring projects in his new book, The Re-Use Atlas: A designer’s guide towards a circular economy.

Duncan’s talk will be followed by Q&A session and an opportunity to network with designers, architects and other local business owners in the sustainable buzz around the circular economy.

THE WASTEZONE AT ECOBUILD 2018

25/01/2018

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BBM invited to curate The Waste Zone once again

WasteZone Website

Eco Build 2018 Website

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

Planning your trip

Dates: Tuesday 6th March 10:00-18:00 until Thursday 8th March 2018 10:00-18:00

Visitor Registration

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.

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

“The circular economy – the challenge for design and construction”

If you are planning to visit Eco Build this year be sure not to miss Duncan speaking at “The circular economy – the challenge for design and construction” conference on Thursday between 13:30 and 14:30.

Duncan will join the speakers below to discuss the challenges of applying circular economy principles to buildings and infrastructure.

Paul Toyne, Independent Advisor
Richard Boyd Senior Engineer Advanced Technology + Research, Arup
Jesse Putzel, Head of Sustainability, BAM Construct
Jon Bootland, Sustainable Development Foundation, ASBP

“We all know that we need to produce and consume less…of everything! The concept of a ‘circular economy’ first coined bin 1989 by David Pearce and Kerry Turner, has gained support over the last decade or so with some proponents arguing that it could be a new paradigm for sustainability. As described by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation report Growth Within, “the concept rests on three principles: preserve and enhance natural capital, optimise yields from resources in use, and foster system effectiveness (minimise negative externalities)”. While it seems to be reasonably straight forward to reuse valuable resources from relatively short-lived consumer products, the challenge for construction is how to apply these principles to buildings and infrastructure which can last for decades if not longer and also how to take effective action to extend the life of existing buildings and infrastructure as a positive contribution to supporting a more circular economy. How to we bring these principles into mainstream construction? What are the changes needed to make the whole industry behave differently? These are the challenges for the construction industry and the built environment and this discussion explores ways to meet it and respond to SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. This session was developed with steering group partner the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP)”

For further details on the three day event please visit the Eco Build website.