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Constructive Voices is an award-winning global platform and media brand dedicated to accelerating positive change in the built environment.
We connect the dots between sustainability, biodiversity, design, development, health, policy, innovation and community by creating conversations that break down silos and bring important ideas to wider audiences.
Through podcasts, video, editorial content and live forums, we explore topics such as green building, biodiversity, renewable energy, resilience, regenerative development, AI and nature-positive solutions.
With the launch of the Constructive Voices Future Places Forum, we are taking this mission further—creating place-based events and media that spotlight the people, projects and partnerships shaping more sustainable cities and regions.
Our vision is to work with companies, institutions and individuals across the world to feature the positive work they are doing, positioning Constructive Voices as a leading source of inspiration, insight and practical examples for a better built environment and world.
We are passionate about sustainability, biodiversity and innovation, and we bring together global experts, local communities, businesses and emerging voices to help document and drive the historic changes needed in our time.
Hosts and presenters to date have included Jackie De Burca, Henry McDonald, Peter Finn, Steve Randall, Emma Nicholson, Sarah Austin, Rhiannon Matthias, Mohammed Hesham Khalil and Ciara O’Brien.
Biodiversity course teachers on Learn at Constructive Voices have included Ben Stansfield, Rachel Blount, Paula Wakelin, John Cornell FRGS, Ellen Davies, Claire Wansbury, Jane Findlay FLI PPLI, Dr. Carol Williams, Archie Ruggles-Brise and Dr. Kate Vincent.
We connect the dots between sustainability, biodiversity, design, development, health, policy, innovation and community by creating conversations that break down silos and bring important ideas to wider audiences.
Through podcasts, video, editorial content and live forums, we explore topics such as green building, biodiversity, renewable energy, resilience, regenerative development, AI and nature-positive solutions.
With the launch of the Constructive Voices Future Places Forum, we are taking this mission further—creating place-based events and media that spotlight the people, projects and partnerships shaping more sustainable cities and regions.
Our vision is to work with companies, institutions and individuals across the world to feature the positive work they are doing, positioning Constructive Voices as a leading source of inspiration, insight and practical examples for a better built environment and world.
We are passionate about sustainability, biodiversity and innovation, and we bring together global experts, local communities, businesses and emerging voices to help document and drive the historic changes needed in our time.
Hosts and presenters to date have included Jackie De Burca, Henry McDonald, Peter Finn, Steve Randall, Emma Nicholson, Sarah Austin, Rhiannon Matthias, Mohammed Hesham Khalil and Ciara O’Brien.
Biodiversity course teachers on Learn at Constructive Voices have included Ben Stansfield, Rachel Blount, Paula Wakelin, John Cornell FRGS, Ellen Davies, Claire Wansbury, Jane Findlay FLI PPLI, Dr. Carol Williams, Archie Ruggles-Brise and Dr. Kate Vincent.
Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
41 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United Kingdom
134 episodes
since April 1, 2021
episodic
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In the second of our three-part series on Cork's Marina Park, Jackie De Burca sits down again with Patrick McCabe of Redscape and Rani Izhar of Okra Landscape Architects to go underneath the park, into the philosophy that shapes the whole thing. Patrick calls it living with water. Rani has it at th…
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Most parks are designed not to flood. Cork's Marina Park is designed to do exactly that.
In the first of a three-part series, Jackie De Burca sits down with the two landscape architects behind Cork's Marina Park — Patrick McCabe of Redscape and Rani Ishar of Okra Landscape Architects — to unpack h…
“We have a solution that is already here. It’s already doing the work that needs to be done. And all we have to do is let them complete the job.” Paul Koberstein
He has spent forty years reporting on the forests of the Pacific Northwest — and he is convinced they may be the most powerful climate t…
“I grew up with my parents telling me stories about the ancient Persian civilisation… and I created this huge passion for ancient civilisations.” Moein Nodehi
Moein Nodehi Constructive Voices Podcast Cover
He was born in the middle of war.
As conflict tore through Iran, Moein Nodehi’s family fle…
What if “healthy ageing” isn’t just about genes, diet, or healthcare — but also about the streets you navigate, the air you breathe, the noise you sleep through, and the buildings you spend 90% of your life inside?
“This conversation makes the case for a shift: from sustainability as a materials-a…
Neuro-Sustainability: Designing Places Where Brains Can Thrive
What if sustainability wasn’t only about carbon, materials, and energy — but also about the human brain?
In this second episode of the mini-series about neuro-sustainability, neuroscience and architecture meet in a conversation that f…
Welcome to the Constructive Voices’ mini-series that dives into neuro-sustainability and the built environment.
“The brain is not concrete… it is always changing.” Mohamed Hesham Khalil
We investigate the work of Cambridge scholarship student, Mohamed Hesham Khalil, which we believe should be in…
Rebuilding Ukraine through circularity, community with British and Dutch support, is a good news podcast episode.
This positive news story has been inspired by one of the world’s most tragic situations: the war in Ukraine.
“We in Ukraine are becoming a pilot site for diverse sustainable pilots, e…
In this episode, Ciara sits down with Jessica Gill and Aoibhínn Nevin-Ginnetty, two passionate youth advocates from Plan International Ireland’s Youth Advisory Panel who took their COP28 experience and turned it into local action.
Fresh from representing youth voices at COP28 in Dubai, Jessica and…
In this episode of Constructive Voices, Jackie is joined again by Tim Christophersen, Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce and author of Generation Restoration. Fresh back from COP30 in Belém, Tim shares why – out of roughly 15 COPs he has attended – this one felt like a genuine turning p…
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