Introducing the Circular Economy and restorative sustainability concepts for Runshaw College Students on 30 June 2015

1. F U T U R E S T O R A T I V E
INSPIRATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR A NEW SUSTAINABILITY
MARTIN BROWN
www.fairsnape.com/futurestorative
#endlessismore
@fairsnape

2. Design for a new industry.

3. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Put billions of pounds of
toxic waste into the air and
water.

4. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Produce some materials
so dangerous they require
constant vigilance by
future generations.

5. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Put valuable surplus
material in holes in the
ground

6. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Produce huge amounts of
waste and surplus material

7. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Create profit by digging up
and cutting down natural
resources and then
burying or burning them

8. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Erode the diversity of
species and cultural
practices
*Cradle to Cradle

9. Life Magazine
1955
Celebrated
Throwaway
Living
TAKE … MAKE … DUMP

10. Image: Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers

11. Image: Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers

13. Annually the UK construction industry
generates ~2million tonnes of packaging
waste; enough to fill 800 Olympic-sized
swimming pools!

14. One Olympic-sized swimming pool …

15. Captain Charles Moore on TED
Seas of Plastic

17. every

18. Waste = Food
The Important Science Bit …

19. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
Sustainability
Net Positive
Circular Economy
Giving More Than You Take

20. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
“we shouldn’t even use the word sustainability
until we give more back to nature than we take”

23. THE METAPHOR OF
THE FLOWER
ROOTED IN PLACE AND YET:
Harvests all energy + water
Is adapted to climate and site
Operates pollution free
Is comprised of integrated systems
Is beautiful
LIVING
BUILDING
CHALLENGE
SM

26. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:WANTED:
Built Environment
Earth Entrepreneurs
#endlessismore

27. Design brief for ‘built environment’ industry:
References:
Dame Ellen MacArthur: @ellenmacarthur
Circular Economy Foundation: @circulareconomy
Let My People Go Surfing: Yvon Chounaird, Patagonia, and
other heroes: http://fairsnape.com/2012/07/06/heros-and-texts-
for-a-future-built-environment-based-on-csr/
Cradle to Cradle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle-to-
cradle_design
Running the Numbers: http://www.chrisjordan.com/
Living Building Challenge www.ilfi.org @livingbldgUK
Ecoavtive: @ecovative http://www.ecovativedesign.com/
FutuREstorative www.fairsnape.com/futurestorative
Fairsnape Blog www.fairsnape.com
@fairsnape
#endlessismore

28. F U T U R E S T O R A T I V E
INSPIRATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR A NEW SUSTAINABILITY
MARTIN BROWN @fairsnape
www.fairsnape.com/futurestorative