Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment Georgia Tech School of Architecture and the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design

We have a wonderful episode today on the very interesting topic of sustainable and ethical materials. And we will be discussing specifically the relationship between ethical materials and sustainability and also the challenges and possible disadvantages of ethical materials and how to overcome them to make them part of standard practice.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment podcast. Today, we're here to talk about the opportunities and challenges around building life cycles that allow or hinder the built environment to be used as a material depot.

In this episode, we examine the general concepts behind urban farming, discussing what it is, why it is so important. It's different forms and methods and what directions it is headed in. As the global population continues to shift towards the cities and our increasingly urbanized world, many new questions are being raised around how we should produce our food, where we should produce it, and how we deliver it from the farm to the table. We have with us today a host of guests who do a lot of work precisely answering these kinds of questions right here in the city of Atlanta.

We welcome you back to another episode of Climate Change and the design of the built environment. This session will focus on climate change within the field of architecture for black architects and architecture students and will look to expose the facts behind the shortage of black architects by engaging advisers, architects, professors and students in the conversation of race and architecture.

This episode will focus on designing the built environment to acknowledge and support the homeless and those who face housing and security by discussing topics such as the right to adequate housing, what is sustainable and adequate housing, and how does housing relate to sustainability? We are opening a discussion that is often neglected in the design world.

What is BID, bio inspired design? Who is involved? What's next! Listen to Georgia Tech Architecture Students interview leaders in the field. Today we are here to talk about bio inspired design and bio inspired green manufacturing. My name is Karie and I'm here with Sumher. And we are engineering and architecture students at Georgia Tech. Our interest in bio inspired design and green manufacturing led us to a lively and insightful discussion with Michael Chang, Jeanette Yenn, Michael Gamble and Mark Weisberg.