This webinar on Territoralising Circularity has already took place. Click here for the presentation and more information that can be found on the SURE Eurodelta website.
About the lecture:
For the ASSET Meet and Learn on Friday 30 August, 2024, we have Alexander Wandl, Associated Professor TU Delft, Netherlands, as our guest speaker.
Alexander uses an extended territorial metabolism approach, integrating methods and tools from urban planning and design, landscape architecture, and spatial data science in a multiscale approach to sustainable urbanism. In recent years, his research and teaching have focused on the spatial dimension of cities and regions' circularity transitions. He concentrated on the challenges related to the sustainable development of dispersed urban areas and megaregions.
He developed interdisciplinary online, and on-campus education at the Master's and professional levels to educate future circular economy advocates on integrating circularity strategies into regional planning and design.
In this webinar lecture, Alexander will introduce methods for territorialising the circular economy concept.
CE originates in ecological and environmental economics and industrial ecology. Unlike other sustainability frameworks, it focuses on developing an alternative economic and technological model for production and consumption, avoiding natural resource depletion and redesigning processes and cycles of materials. However, when CE is translated to cities and territories, its environmental, economic and design agency is often neglected. On the one hand, it demands acknowledging the need for a relational understanding of space, place, and actors involved and, on the other, exploring the spatial specificity of CE. He will present a broader theoretical and methodological approach to overcome this gap.
About the speaker:
Dr. Alexander Wandl is an associate professor and head of the Section of Environmental Technology and Design of the Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology (NL). He is a steering committee member of Circular Built Environment Hub, TU Delft’s Think Tank, for the circularity transition from the material scale to the region.