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The Green Urbanist Ross O'Ceallaigh
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The podcast for urbanists fighting climate change. Hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, a planner and urban designer based in London, this show explores how architects, planners, policy makers and designers can make cities more sustainable, healthy and happy.
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#85: Regenerative Architecture Index - Accelerating towards a regenerative built environment
In conversation with Alisdair Ben Dixon (Collective Works), Anna Lisa McSweeney (White Arkitektur) and Isabel Allen (Architecture Today) about the new Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI).
Launched by Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare, the Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI) sets out to benchmark practices progress in the move towards regenerative practice and projects. It recognises the need for a built environment that isn’t merely reducing its negative impacts, but has positive impacts for today and the long term.
We discuss why they created the index, how they define 'regenerative design' and shifting towards regenerative practice in the built environment.
Submissions are open until 17 May 2024.
Links:
Find out more and submit to the RAI: https://architecturetoday.co.uk/the-regenerative-architecture-index/
More about Alisdair and Collective works: https://collectiveworks.net/practice/
More about Anna Lisa: https://nla.london/contributors/anna-lisa-mcsweeney
White Arkitektur: https://whitearkitekter.com/
Bill Sharp's 3 Horizons Model: https://www.futuregenerations.wales/resources_posts/three-horizons-toolkit/
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#84: Using 3D Modelling, Digital Twins and Generative Design for Sustainability, with VU.CITY
I sit down with Andrew Bullmore of VU.CITY to discuss how 3D models, digital twins and artificial intelligence tools can be used to do better, evidence-based planning and design and get more sustainable outcomes.
VU.CITY website: https://www.vu.city/
SiteSolve generative AI: https://www.site-solve.co.uk/
This is a sponsored episode. Thanks to VU.CITY for the support.
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#83: Net Zero Carbon Neighbourhoods, with Sam Luker (AESG)
Sam Luker is an Associate Sustainability Director at AESG and led on their new report titled 'Net Zero Neighbourhoods'.
In this episode we discuss:
Why the neighbourhood scale is optimal for decarbonisation and finding local solutions to sustainabilityPrinciples and case studies for Net Zero NeighbourhoodsRetrofitting existing neighbourhoods for decarbonisationHow to get communities involved and realise local benefitsExamples of innovative funding mechanisms to deliver net zero neighbourhoods
Read the report on Net Zero Neighbourhoods from AESG/LDN Collective: https://westlondon.com/net-zero-neighbourhoods-report-launched-to-further-the-uptake-for-a-low-carbon-future/
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#83: Decolonise Architecture, with Mohit Buch and Sue Yen Chong
Mohit and Sue Yen are architects and members of Decolonise Architecture, a solution-based group driven to tackle institutional racism and bias within architectural education and practice. In this episode we discuss:
How architectural education and practice can be 'colonial' in its approach, and the problems with this.Expanding architectural education and practice to embrace other cultures and worldviews.How the architecture profession can be made more accessible to all.Learn more about Decolonise Architecture: https://www.decolonisearchitecture.com/
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#82: Decarbonising Concrete and Steel, with Jeff Rissman
Jeffrey Rissman is Senior Director at Energy Innovation, where he leads the company’s work on technologies and policies to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the industry sector. He is the author of Zero-Carbon Industry: Transformative Technologies and Policies to Achieve Sustainable Prosperity (2024) and coauthor of Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy (2018).
We discuss decarbonisation pathways for concrete and steel and what urbanists can do to drive down industrial emissions.
Check out Jeff's book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/zero-carbon-industry/9780231204200
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#81: Reimagining Roads as Public Space, with LDA (Landscape Mini-Series Part 4)
Welcome to part 4, the final episode in the landscape mini-series. In this episode I sit down with Cannon Ivers CMLI of LDA to discuss their inspiring project The Strand, Aldwych. The Strand was for centuries a busy traffic thoroughfare in central London that has been transformed into a totally pedestrianised and multi-functional public space. Cannon tells me the story of how this came to be, what it means for the people who use this space and how it connects to a larger initiative to transform busy roads in central London into public spaces.
More about the Strand: https://www.lda-design.co.uk/kindling/news/westminster-unveils-reimagined-strand-aldwych/
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