Ecogradia
Nirmal Kishnani
How do we design buildings and cities for a planet in crisis? And how do we create an equitable world for all life?
Join sustainability strategist and author, Nirmal Kishnani, on Ecogradia, a new weekly podcast where we explore the way forward with experts and practitioners at the frontlines of sustainable architecture and urbanism.
If you seek inspiring stories and provocative points of view, innovative ideas, and solutions that are future-ready, Ecogradia is for you. Each episode pushes the boundaries of knowledge so you can shape your own journey, beyond ‘less harm’ to ‘doing good’.
To get even more out of this podcast, go to ecogradia.com to find all our episode notes.
You can also follow us, leave a review or share your views on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
The first season of Ecogradia is sponsored by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
Join sustainability strategist and author, Nirmal Kishnani, on Ecogradia, a new weekly podcast where we explore the way forward with experts and practitioners at the frontlines of sustainable architecture and urbanism.
If you seek inspiring stories and provocative points of view, innovative ideas, and solutions that are future-ready, Ecogradia is for you. Each episode pushes the boundaries of knowledge so you can shape your own journey, beyond ‘less harm’ to ‘doing good’.
To get even more out of this podcast, go to ecogradia.com to find all our episode notes.
You can also follow us, leave a review or share your views on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
The first season of Ecogradia is sponsored by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
Episodes
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May 7, 2024 • 42min
Calm the mind, connect with place __ Võ Trọng Nghĩa __ VTN Architects
How to unlock the mind to produce better designs, faster? Võ Trọng Nghĩa explores this question, revealing a philosophy where meditation is the key to healing ourselves and saving the planet.
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Apr 30, 2024 • 45min
Industrial architecture: For efficiency and well-being
Factories have always been designed for profitability. However, as the Covid pandemic highlighted, a focus on worker well-being is equally important. Can industrial building typologies rise to the challenge?
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Apr 23, 2024 • 45min
Raising the floor on innovative carbon solutions __ Liz Minné __ Interface
Imagine a world where your carpet reduces atmospheric carbon. In this episode, discover how Interface is making this a reality. Liz Minné discusses a range of innovative strategies that redefine our expectations of flooring.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 50min
Guardian of the built and unbuilt __ Brinda Somaya __ SNK
Navigating conservation and social equity, Brinda Somaya reveals how these considerations blend into a position on sustainability in India. She offers a blueprint for design that is low-impact, contextual, and compassionate.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 43min
Heritage and tradition: Innovating for a sustainable future
Traditional architecture is a melting pot of history, culture and knowledge-systems spanning centuries. Its continued decline globally begs the question: what can the past offer to the present and the future?
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Mar 26, 2024 • 54min
Challenging the greenery facade __ Leonard Ng __ Henning Larsen
Explore the reality of greenery in architecture — pragmatic sustainability or mere aesthetics? Leonard Ng navigates the fine line, urging honesty in distinguishing between environmental impact and visual appeal.
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Mar 12, 2024 • 52min
Simplifying the carbon conundrum __ Stuart Smith __ Arup
The podcast explores decarbonizing cement and concrete for sustainable building practices, anticipating future urban development through design ingenuity, sustainable and adaptable design for future-proof buildings, innovative design approaches in high rise construction, and carbon reduction in construction through digital fabrication and 3D printing.
Mar 7, 2024 • 41min
Integrated multisystem approach: A key to sustainable design
Each building is a nexus of multiple systems ‘talking’ to each other. This integrated approach is often key to optimising performance. But how does integration work? How do you rally stakeholders and negotiate trade-offs?
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Feb 27, 2024 • 47min
Connecting people to place __ Barclay & Crousse
Many countries in the developing South seek pathways to a sustainable future. Peru-based architecture firm Barclay & Crousse offers a prism on what this looks like, when it is anchored to the specifics of people, climate and place.
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Feb 13, 2024 • 54min
Unleash the power of process __ Kjetil Trædal Thorsen __ Snøhetta
Good design often reveals what we do not know we need. But such a feat depends not only on what we tweak and improve, says Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, but how we re-imagine the process. The question is: where to start?
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