4 episodes
Designing Circularity The Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao
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Designing Circularity is a 4 episode podcast series, created for the exhibition ‘Designing Circularity’. The exhibition is initiated by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao. The Netherlands is this year’s partner country of the Knowledge of Design Week (KoDW) and Business of Design Week (BodW) events, both organised by the Hong Kong Design Center. Circularity – a sustainable economy that produces no waste and is ‘net zero’ – will be the theme guiding the contributions of the Netherlands to these events this year.
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Designing Circularity: Everyday Goods
In this episode, we talk with three businesses about Everyday Goods and their role in the circular economy. Daria Biryukova, founder of Studio Mixtura, a ceramics studio designing around circular ceramics production methods, director Mattia Bernini of Precious Plastic, an open source plastic recycling community with hundreds of members worldwide, and co-founder Tom Leenders of Repeat who has developed a completely modular and fully recyclable headphone.
Studio Mixtura https://www.studiomixtura.com/
Precious Plastic https://preciousplastic.com
Repeat Audio https://repeat.audio/en/business
The Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao has initiated the Designing Circularity podcast in conjunction with an exhibition that will run from June 3rd to June 28th, 2023 at the Central Market in Hong Kong. The exhibition will showcase proven circular practices in three key areas of the circular economy: Fashion, Built Environment, and Everyday Goods.
More information can be found on https://www.designingcircularity.org -
Designing Circularity: Built Environment
The focus of this episode is the Built Environment, another key area of the circular economy. Nicole Maurer and Marc Maurer, founders of MUA, and architects of the SuperLocal circular housing project in The Netherlands. Xander Vermeulen Windsant, founder of XVW Architektuur in Amsterdam, and architect explains about the revitalisation of the ageing mass housing block Kleiburg. The last guest of this podcast is Oep Schilling, founder of Wikkelhouse, a company that produces modular housing using cardboard as its main structure.
Maurer United Architects (MUA) https://mua.myportfolio.com/superlocal-pavilion/
XVW Architektuur http://www.nlarchitects.nl/slideshow/201/
Wikkelhouse https://wikkelhouse.com/
The Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao has initiated the Designing Circularity podcast in conjunction with an exhibition that will run from June 3rd to June 28th, 2023 at the Central Market in Hong Kong. The exhibition will showcase proven circular practices in three key areas of the circular economy: Fashion, Built Environment, and Everyday Goods.
More information can be found on https://www.designingcircularity.org -
Designing Circularity: Fashion
In this episode, we talk with four businesses of circular economy in the field of Fashion in The Netherlands. We begin with Heleen Kopper, founder of fashion system Woolfiller and Made To Mend, followed by Hugo de Boon en Koen Meerkerk of Fruitleather in Rotterdam. The third guests are Laura Luchtman and Ilfa Siebenhaar of Living Colour, and my last guest of this episode is Suzanne Mulder of PMS.
Woolfiller https://www.woolfiller.com/
Made To Mend https://www.madetomend.com/
Fruitleather https://fruitleather.nl/introduction-2/
Living Colour https://livingcolour.eu/
PMS Studio https://www.studiopms.nl/
The Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao has initiated the Designing Circularity podcast in conjunction with an exhibition that will run from June 3rd to June 28th, 2023 at the Central Market in Hong Kong. The exhibition will showcase proven circular practices in three key areas of the circular economy: Fashion, Built Environment, and Everyday Goods.
More information can be found on https://www.designingcircularity.org -
Designing Circularity: Design for the Circular Economy in the Netherlands and Hong Kong
In this episode we speak with the exhibition’s Co-Curators Sjoerd Hoekstra, Hoi Chi Ng and Simone de Waart about the objectives and ideas informing the exhibition, and their ideas of what a circular future looks like.
Today humanity uses the equivalent energy and resources of 1.7 earths.
If the whole world adopted a Dutch lifestyle, this would become 3.6 earths, or even 4.4 earths with a Hong Kong lifestyle.*
We only have one earth.
We need to adjust the way we live, work, play and do business so that our lifestyle can be sustained by the one earth we have.
This exhibition brings together inspiring examples from The Netherlands and Hong Kong that show how – right now–designers, architects and entrepreneurs are making this a reality by rethinking how we make and use the built environment, fashion apparel and everyday goods. What stands out in these examples is how the designers focus on what happens to a building, clothing or object once it is no longer of use.
This new reality is called the circular economy, an economy that produces zero waste and zero carbon, which uses renewable materials, reuses non-renewable materials and keeps them in use as long as possible to create a virtuous circle.
*Hong Kong's ecological footprint: www.wwf.org.hk/en/cities/footprint/
*Ecological footprint of the world & the Netherlands: www.overshootday.org
The Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao has initiated the Designing Circularity podcast in conjunction with an exhibition that will run from June 3rd to June 28th, 2023 at the Central Market in Hong Kong. The exhibition will showcase proven circular practices in three key areas of the circular economy: Fashion, Built Environment, and Everyday Goods.
www.designingcircularity.org