Explore every episode of the podcast Sustainable Building Saga
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture and power - Interview with Minister Yoko Alender | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:33:26 | |
How do architecture, politics, and power relate? With Yoko Alender, Minister of Climate of Estonia, we discuss buildings, spaces in between, path dependencies, slow violence, and softer cities. | |||
| In praise of shadows: Aesthetics for the Anthropocene? - Interview with Sanna Lehtinen | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:29:31 | |
How does the understanding of the climate impacts of buildings and their materials change our aesthetic perception? Can architecture cause or alleviate climate anxiety? Together with research fellow Sanna Lehtinen of Aalto University, we are diving into the deep end of environmental aesthetics and having an imaginary coffee break with Junichiro Tanizaki, Christian Norberg-Schulz and Henry Thoreau. | |||
| Do androids dream of carbon neutrality? Interview of ChatGPT | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:28:17 | |
How can an artificial intelligence support the design of carbon neutral buildings? Can AI help us to consider the needs of non-humans in a participatory design process? In this episode, we embrace posthumanism in an interview with Chat GPT. | |||
| Carbon flows from forests to buildings with Mark Hughes | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:35:38 | |
How could we utilise and enhance the climate benefits of wood construction? In this episode, we are discussing the flows of carbon from forests to products and to buildings with professor Mark Hughes from Aalto University. | |||
| Is this how architecture ends? Interview of John Schellnhuber, part 2 | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:22:14 | |
How should we prepare for the uncertain future in the built environment? Is climate neutrality already an insufficient climate goal? With professor John Schellnhuber, the founding director of Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, we discussed the turbulence of the future weather and the science behind the scenarios. | |||
| Is this how architecture ends? Interview of John Schellnhuber, part 1 | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:31:46 | |
How should we prepare for the uncertain future in the built environment? Is climate neutrality already an insufficient climate goal? With professor John Schellnhuber, the founding director of Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, we discussed the turbulence of the future weather and the science behind the scenarios. | |||
| Designed to be relocated - Jaakko Torvinen | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:24:05 | |
What needs to be taken into account, when designing an exhibition building that can be converted into a school? In this episode, architect Jaakko Torvinen takes us to an audio tour into the award-winning Little Finlandia pavillion in Helsinki. | |||
| Balancing sustainability with Eeva Furman | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:33:55 | |
How can we simultaneously address different aspects of sustainability that might be conflicting? Eeva Furman, secretery-general for Finland´s National Commission on Sustainable Development suggests that we should "re-marry with nature" and take into account the needs of future generations and non-humans. | |||
| Decarbonizing design with Alan Organschi | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:39:16 | |
What turned an award-winning architect to promoting decarbonized design and wood architecture all over the world? Discussion with Alan Organschi, principal at GrayOrganschi Architecture (New Haven, USA), senior member of the faculty at Yale School of Architecture, and director of the innovation lab at Bauhaus Earth. | |||
| Designing for climate emergency with Sofie Pelsmakers | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:35:30 | |
How can architects become changemakers that design for a better future? Together with professor Sofie Pelsmakers of Tampere University we discuss architecture as activism, bewildering of the built environment, and the power of design for doing good. | |||
| Architecture and activism - Interview with Tove Sjöberg | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:29:34 | |
How do architecture and activism relate? How can we learn to love old (boring) buildings, instead of tearing them down? Tove Sjöberg of the Architects Climate Action Network gives examples and insights from Sweden. | |||
| Regulation is the new black - Interview with Philippe Moseley of European Commission | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:28:49 | |
Climate policies are emerging rapidly. Carbon footprint calculations will soon be mandatory for new buildings in the European Union. What does this mean for designers and builders? Together with Philippe Moseley, an architect turned policymaker, we talk through the essence of forth-coming regulation - and the role of creativity in the development of regulations. | |||
| The unbearable lightness of life cycle assessment - Interview with Panu Pasanen of One Click LCA | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:28:12 | |
Life cycle assessment is the new must-use tool for building designers and product developers. But how does it work out in practice? What sort of resources and skills are needed? CEO Panu Pasanen of One Click LCA guides us through the drill – and reveals his personal motivation for pushing the industry forward. | |||
| Sustainability teachings from tradition - Interview with Atsushi Takano | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:33:52 | |
What can we learn from traditional Japanese construction? Can the principles of old timber joints be adopted to modern, reversible building design? Together with professor, architect and wood engineer Atsushi Takano of Kagoshima University we reflected the vernacular approaches to construction in Japan. | |||
| Carbon – how low can you go? Interview with Kasper Björkskov of the Effekt Architects | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:29:50 | |
How can the collaboration between architects and engineers lead to record-low emissions? What is the precise recipe for a low carbon house? In this episode, we are visiting the Effekt Architects in Copenhagen and discussing the Living Places project. | |||
| Paris in 50-degree heat - Interview with Franck Boutté | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:36:40 | |
What are the survival mechanisms for cities in the rapidly warming climate? How is sustainability being embedded into French city planning? Together with Franck Boutté we discussed future scenarios and responses. | |||
| Inspired by resource scarcity with Karl Kvaran | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:29:41 | |
Is the global resource scarcity leading us into re-interpretation of architecture? How have the Icelandic people learnt to live in an island with limited construction materials but with abundance of energy? A discussion with architect, urban planner and lecturer Karl Kvaran from Iceland. | |||
| Mainstreaming wood construction with Anna Denell and Oskar Norelius | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:47:30 | |
How has Sweden succeeded in mainstreaming wood construction? Is it possible to further utilise woody biomass for climate-friendly buildings, without risking biodiversity? Anna Denell of real-estate company Vasakronan and Oskar Norelius of White Architects in discussion with Helena Bjarnegård. | |||