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Average audio length:
32 minutes
English
United States
10 episodes
since Aug. 8, 2022
episodic

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Grace Di Benedetto is a structural engineer at ARUP, specialized in sustainable thinking in structural design, with goals of pushing for innovative building solutions that integrate the circular economy through refurbishment and reuse. In this episode, Laura Guerreiro and Grace discuss the importan…

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Raphael Bach is an architect and urban planner also active in teaching and research who focuses on environmental and societal topics such as agriculture, sustainable materials and collaborative working. He is a member of Materiuum, an association that seeks to disseminate and collect reusable mater…
Nico Schouten is an architect and Built Environment Team Leader at Metabolic, a firm which aims to help transition the global economy towards sustainability through a wide-ranging, complex ecosystem-based approach. In his work, Nico focuses on the application of circular strategies in design in urb…
Elodie Simon is an architect and co-founder of etceterra, an architecture firm based in Lausanne which focuses on earth construction, the reuse of excavation materials, and raising awareness for sustainable construction through education. In this episode, Sibylle Vuillemin discusses with Elodie abo…
Prof. El Hadi Jazairy, with Prof. Rania Ghosn, is the co-founder of Design Earth, a research practice that engages with the medium of speculative architectural projects to make the climate crisis public. El Hadi holds a Doctor of Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is a pr…
Prof. Corentin Fivet is a professor and head of the Structural eXploration Laboratory (SXL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His expertise and research interests cover sustainable construction, circular economy, reuse, structure-Efficient Design, computational m…
James Binning is a founding member of the design-led interdisciplinary practice Assemble, a multi-disciplinary collective working across architecture, design and art. Assemble embodies a democratic and co-operative working method that enables  built, social and research-based work at a variety…
Marta H. Wisniewska is an architect, urban planner, and lecturer at the Department of Architecture of Cornell University. Marta derives her designs from an extended understanding of the genius loci with a special focus on local material availability, craftsmanship, and industrial processing skills.…
Kerstin Müller is an architect and Managing Director of Zirkular, a firm based in Basel, Switzerland which focuses on circular construction processes to achieve sustainable goals and break away from conventional practices. After working around the globe and at baubüro in situ ag, Kerstin has been m…
Have you ever imagined an alternative for a better world ? A purpose for disregarded products and materials ? We are the Circulars, a podcast developed by graduate students of the Media x Design Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), this podcast is a series of…
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