“Circular Cultures”: A two-day program on “Waste Surveys” by the British Council and the Roof

Where do things go when we stop using them? Can waste become the protagonists of the city? While the climate crisis is an increasing challenge for modern societies, “Circular Cultures” is coming for the fourth year, on March 3 and 4, to open the debate for a more sustainable life. The British Council and the Onassis Foundation present a two-day program on “Waste Surveys”, which includes a daily web conference with panel discussions and discussions, as well as a workshop day.

In the two-day event, speakers and participants will explore sustainable urban practices, highlighting important design projects that serve society, while promoting equality and social justice. Starting with our rapidly expanding city – our land – the project will focus on waste management through the spectrum of food production and nature and will highlight the correlation between consumption and production or creation.

Participants will explore different waste management systems and propose design solutions to the visible environmental and social challenges posed by waste. They will promote networks and initiatives that promote resilience and strengthen social capital by raising public awareness of the climate crisis and its impact on the city.

“Circular Cultures” aims to actively engage artists, designers, urban planners, creators and the general public to make their cities more sustainable, as well as forging interdisciplinary, holistic strategies to promote urban resilience by raising awareness and helping people. learn new skills.

As Prodromos Tsiavos, Director of Digital Development at the Onassis Foundation and head of the Circular Cultures program from Stegi, puts it, Can we think of our clothes, our food or our coffee from the perspective of the water they consume or the soil they pollute? How can digital technology help us in all this, what is the policy and ethics of the circular economy and what does it mean to be able to reuse pieces of appliances, clothes and objects after their initial use? The fourth year of cooperation between the Onassis Foundation and the British Council for Circular Cultures, which this year is entitled “Waste Surveys”, comes to wonder what it means to “design my waste”. “We are looking for environmental justice and we are seeing how circular economy practices create a different kind of design, more political, more inclusive and, ultimately, more humane.”

Participation is free. The working language of all sessions is English, with simultaneous interpretation in Greek. The conference is held in collaboration with the British Embassy in Athens and is supported by PCAI.

Circular Cultures: Topographies of Waste

Conference Program

Thursday, March 3, 2022

14:00 – 19:00 (12:00 – 17:00 GMT)

14:00 – 16:00 Water ecologies

Presented by Maria Papaioannou, Head of Arts of the British Council in Greece

14:00 – 14:15 Welcome

14:15 – 14:20 Stage design by Parvinder Marwaha, Head of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council

14:20 – 14:40 Speech by Mariana Pestana, Co-Founder and Director of The Decorators, Curator of the 5th Istanbul Design Biennale

14:40 – 14:55 Discussion-challenge:

Jane Withers, Design Consultant, Curator and Author

Dr. Naho Mirumachi, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at King’s College London

14:55 – 15:15 Speech by Eleni Myrivili, Climate Durability Consultant and Chief Heat Officer of the Arsht-Rock Resilience Center (Atlantic Council) and the Municipality of Athens.

15:15 – 15:40 “Chimeras”, panel discussion moderated by Parvinder Marwaha. The participants are:

Monish Siripurapu, Founder of Ant Studio

Elissa Brunato, Co-Founder of AusBlau Studio

15:40 – 15:55 Intervention-speech by Apostolos Korkolis, Director of the Quality Control Laboratory of Polyeco SA

15:55 – 16:00 Video Break

16:00 – 17:20 Food waste

Presented by Prodromos Tsiavos, Head of Digital Development & Innovation of the Onassis Foundation

16:00 – 16:05 Stage design by Parvinder Marwaha

16:05 – 16:25 Speech by Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor at Cooper Union

16:25 – 16:45 Speech by Vicky Barboka, Nutrition Program Manager, WWF Hellas

16:45 – 17:20 Panel discussion moderated by Kika Kyriakakou, Artistic Director of PCAI. The participants are:

Vicky Barboka, Nutrition Program Manager, WWF Hellas

Karishma Rafferty, Festival Planner at the Kew Gardens Botanical Garden in London

Katerina Zahou, Assistant Curator of the Western Balkans Biennale

17:20 – 17:30 Intervention by Christos Karras, Executive Director of the Onassis Foundation

17:30 – 17:35 Break

17:35 – 18:50 Circular by design

Presented by Seth and Akil Scaffe Smith, Directors of RESOLVE Collective

The following participate in the dialogue:

Christiana Vardakou, Textile Designer

Eva Grigoriadou, Head of Research and Training Programs, Urbana

Mara Angelidou, Director of InCommOn

YesMake

Alix Bizet, Materials Researcher, Designer and Educator

18:50 – 19:00 Thanks

Workshop program

Friday 4 March 2022 11:00 – 16:00

11:00 – 12:30 | WWF: Let’s have lunch for the sake of the planet!

13:00 – 14:30 | CO3 (6) 5: Can our food waste be used for something useful and help spread the circular economy?

15:00 – 16:00 | Creation of social infrastructure platforms through local planning

The working language of the laboratories is English, without interpretation.

More information about the conference:

https://www.onassis.org/el/whats-on/circular-cultures

More information about the workshops:

https://www.onassis.org/el/whats-on/circular-cultures/workshops-

Applications for the conference until the day of the conference: https://form.jotform.com/220411882124345/prefill/6214e8d2fd665c16307764d1a744

Applications for the workshops until March 2: https://form.jotform.com/220474057111344/prefill/6214e8591e29f729696961250e88

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