Circular Metabolism Podcast

📺 Welcome to the 29th episode of the Circular Metabolism podcast: "The Role of Urban Infrastructures" with Prof. Sybil Derrible 📺.On today’s episode I wanted to focus on a piece of our cities which I always found a bit boring. It is topic dominated by engineers and which I thought there is nothing new happened since the beginning of the 50s or 70s. However, I later came to realise that if we want to reduce the environmental impact of existing and especially new cities then they are a key component. If you haven’t figured it out already I’m talking about infrastructures. Indeed, urban infrastructures are dictating the way flows circulate with our cities and have immense political and urbanistic implications. To talk about infrastructures, I have Sybil Derrible who has written and edited two books and written countless articles on the topic. Sybil is Associate Professor of Urban Engineering in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Lab. His research interests include the planning, design, and modeling of urban infrastructure. More particularly, he looks at both the supply of (e.g., network properties) and demand (e.g., consumption behavior) for infrastructure. From buildings, water/wastewater, electricity, gas, telecom, transport, and even solid waste, all are part of a nexus of co-dependent and ubiquitous elements of infrastructure that is critical to our cities, acting as a significant generator of economic activity and social development. His main goal is to rethink infrastructure planning and design practices and inform new policies to help design smart, sustainable, and resilient cities. On this episode we talk about the role of urban infrastructures to address urban (environmental) challenges. We discuss about the variety and differences of infrastructures existing across the world as well as how we should plan and implement infrastructures in the future for existing and new cities. Enjoy this episode and please subscribe to Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher & leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/5uD5perrpL4👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.In this new episode, I wanted to explore a concept that has been extremely popular over the last decade or two in the fields of research, practice and policy in urban areas. And I think it was even more present during the current pandemic. However as we will discover later in this episode there is a lot of fuzziness yet at a lot of stakes behind a clear definition and implementation. The concept I’m referring to is urban resilience. To talk about this concept I’m lucky to have Sara Meerow who has wrote many articles on the topic. Sara is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and is an interdisciplinary social-ecological systems scientist working at the intersection of urban geography and planning. Her research tackles the challenge of how to make cities more resilient in the face of climate change and other social and environmental hazards, while at the same time more sustainable and just. Specifically, she works on the theories and practices of urban resilience, green infrastructure, and climate change adaptation planning in a range of cities.On this episode we define urban resilience, discuss what actions can be implemented at a city level to increase it, but also how to negotiate between the different trade offs when dealing with the concept. Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.In this new episode, I wanted to move away from studying economic alternatives, technological solutions and policy measures and get back to an essential question which is how you plan and design cities. In fact, there is a very intimate relationship between the territorial organisation of a city and how they consume resource flows but also how they reuse waste flows as new resources. In other terms I wanted to discuss with one world renowned architect and urbanist, Paola Viganò.Paola is the co-founder of the architectural study Studio and Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (Lausanne) and at IUAV Venice. Paola, has received numerous awards for her work including the French Grand Prix de l'Urbanisme in 2013, the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture in 2018 and has received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2016. Her Studio has worked on constructing visions for some important metropolitan areas: Le Grand Paris, métropole de l’après Kyoto; Brussels 2040; Lille 2030 and Montpellier 2040. In 2012 Studio was chosen to propose a vision on New Moscow. In her work she has also developed some concepts to rethink cities such as the porous city and the horizontal metropolis. On this episode we talked how architects and urbanists might design 21st. century cities, how they can articulate all pressing challenges into one spatial reconfiguration and how new concepts can help to acceleration transitions.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way. In the last episodes we explored some alternative societal and economic models such as degrowth, living well within limits, permacircularity and we continue our quest by looking into postgrowth. Today is a special day, I have the pleasure to talk to Tim Jackson about his new book Post Growth – Life After Capitalism! Tim is an ecological economist and writer. Since 2016 he has been Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). He holds degrees in mathematics (MA, Cambridge), philosophy (MA, Uni Western Ontario) and physics (PhD, St Andrews). Tim has been the author of Prosperity Without Growth a book that was highly influential for me 10 years ago when I was exploring the relationship between material flows, GDP and prosperity. Over the last years, he seems to be obsessed with growth, its ills and what we should really focus on in the society of tomorrow. His new book title Post Growth which I had the pleasure to ready thanks to the team at Polity is a mix between a history of economy, capitalism, science, and philosophy and a manifesto on how to build the next economy. You can find quotes of the Beatles, Boltzmann, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Stuart Mill and many others in order to better understand what the good life is and what motivates us.On this episode we talk about how to what is post growth, what life after capitalism might look like, as well as how the flow state might be a solution to overcome current challenges. Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts. 👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y 👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y 👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y 👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we talk with researchers, policy makers and practitioners to understand what makes urban metabolism and economies more circular. On this episode, I am very excited to speak with Julia Steinberger who is a Professor of Societal Challenges of Climate Change at the Université de Lausanne. After earning her PhD in MIT on ultracold hydrogen, she came back to Lausanne and Zürich to do postdoc fellowships before joining the Klagenfurt Institute of Social Ecology in 2007. In 2011, Julia became Associate Professor in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds on Industrial, before returning last August in Université de Lausanne becoming a full professor. Julia researches and has largely published on the relationship between human needs and well-being on the one side and their associated resource and pollution requirements. More notably she is a lead author for the IPCC and is leading a project called Living Well within Limits. Finally, I think is fair to say that aside from research, Julia is a seasoned activist on environmental and societal subjects. On this episode we talk about how to live well within limits, on how affluence is the strongest determinants of global impacts, what are some radical approaches to get out from the current mess and what are some strategies the reduce the environmental impact of cities.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts. 👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y 👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y 👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y 👂 Deezer: http://tiny.cc/ej1zlz 👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Bienvenu.e au podcast Circular Metabolism 📺. Je suis Aristide de Metabolism of Cities. Dans ce podcast nous interviewons des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental net d’une manière juste et contextualisée.Dans cet épisode, j’ai l’honneur de discuter avec Dominique Bourg. Dominique est philosophe et Professeur honoraire de l’Université de Lausanne. Il a pas un mais deux doctorats, trois licences, deux Maîtrises et deux DEA. Il dirige et co dirige plusieurs collection et revues dont la Pensée Ecologique de chez PUF. Il a aussi présidé plusieurs conseils scientifiques de fondations telle que la Fondation Nicolas Hulot et actuellement la Fondation Zoein. Finalement, il s’est également aventuré dans les élections européennes de 2019 en menant la liste « Urgence Ecologie ».Je voulais passer un moment avec Dominique aujourd’hui pour discuter de son ouvrage « Ecologie Intégrale – Pour une société permacirculaire » et plus particulièrement de démystifier les concepts d’économie circulaire, d’économie « authentiquement » circulaire et d’économie permacirculaire. Profitez de cet épisode et aidez nous à améliorer ce podcast en le partageant avec vos proches ou collègues, abonnez vous sur votre plateforme de podcast préférée (Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher) et laissez nous un commentaire 📝. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we talk with researchers, policy makers and practitioners to understand what makes urban metabolism and economies more circular. On this episode, I have the honour to chat with Professor Marina Fischer Kowalski from Boku University who founded the Institute of Social Ecology and was a founding figure for the International Society of Industrial Ecology as well as the European Society for Ecological Economics. Her work is very interdisciplinary and has evolved over the years but includes elements of social sciences, accounting and policy or even politics. She has written countless reports, articles and books on the topic of material flows analysis, industrial ecology, ecological economics and many more. On this episode we discuss about the creation of the social ecology field and how it helped to establish material flow analysis as a policy making instrument.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts. 👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y 👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y 👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y 👂 Deezer: http://tiny.cc/ej1zlz 👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Bienvenu.e au podcast Circular Metabolism 📺. Je suis Aristide de Metabolism of Cities. Dans ce podcast nous interviewons des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental net d’une manière juste et contextualisée.Dans cet épisode, je parle avec Sylvain Grisot. Sylvain est urbaniste et fondateur de dixit.net une agence de conseil d’innovation urbaine. Cela fait plusieurs mois que nous devions nous voir mais n’avons toujours pas eu l’opportunité de le faire. Vu la situation actuelle, un épisode de podcast semble être la manière la plus facile pour discuter de son bouquin « Manifeste pour un urbanisme circulaire. Pour des alternatives concrètes à l’étalement de la ville”. Bossant depuis des années sur le concept de rendre les villes et leurs métabolismes plus circulaire, je me suis dis que j’avais une bonne idée de ce que Sylvain allait traiter dans son livre. Mais, je dois avouer que j’étais un peu surpris. Regardez cet épisode jusqu'au bout pour en apprendre plus!Profitez de cet épisode et aidez nous à améliorer ce podcast en le partageant avec vos proches ou collègues, abonnez vous sur votre plateforme de podcast préférée (Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher) et laissez nous un commentaire 📝. 👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y 👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y 👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y 👂 Deezer: http://tiny.cc/ej1zlz 👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we talk with researchers, policy makers and practitioners to understand what makes urban metabolism and economies more circular. On this episode, we talk with Giorgos Kallis, who is an ecological economist and political ecologist working on environmental justice and limits to growth. He is a professor at CATALAN INSTITUTION FOR RESEARCH AND ADVANCED STUDIES. I wanted to chat with Giorgos about the publication of his new book The Case for Degrowth which he co-authored with Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Frederico Demaria.We discuss about degrowth, political ecology, common sense and cities.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment with your thoughts. - iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y - Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y - Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y - Deezer: http://tiny.cc/ej1zlz - Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we talk with researchers, policy makers and practitioners to understand what makes urban metabolism and economies more circular. On this episode, we talk with Tomas Diez, the Director of the Fab Lab Barcelona, and founder of the projects Smart Citizen and Studio P52. He is also one of the brains behind the notion of Fab City and has edited the book Fab City, the mass distribution of (almost) everything. We discuss more about the concept of Fab Cities (for more info see https://fab.city/), whether self-sufficient cities can exist and why open (source) is one of the core component for future cities. Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment with your thoughts. - iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y - Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y - Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y - Deezer: http://tiny.cc/ej1zlz - Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.