Speaker:
Dr Alexander Wandl is an associate professor and head of the Section of Environmental Technology and Design of the Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology (NL). He is a steering committee member of Circular Built Environment Hub, TU Delft’s Think Tank, for the circularity transition from the material scale to the region.
Lecture:
Circular economy originates in ecological and environmental economics and industrial ecology. Unlike other sustainability frameworks, it focuses on developing an alternative economic and technological model for production and consumption, avoiding natural resource depletion and redesigning processes and cycles of materials. However, when CE is translated to cities and territories, its environmental, economic and design agency is often neglected. On the one hand, it demands acknowledging the need for a relational understanding of space, place, and actors involved and, on the other, exploring the spatial specificity of CE. Alexander will present a broader theoretical and methodological approach to overcome this gap.
About this event series:
The SURE Eurodelta explores the development of a spatial strategy for the Eurodelta. In this series of webinar we explore best practices to boost a circular built environment within Northwest Europe.