16 - 17 MAY 2020
the
ECOWEEK
MEET-UP
ONLINE 48H CHALLENGE FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY
WHO /
ECOWEEK is a non-profit organization established in 2005 with the mission to raise environmental awareness and to promote the principles of social and environmental sustainability through design. ECOWEEK is active in 17 countries with a network in 56 countries.
ECOWEEK is about education, networking and expanding knowledge, acquiring experience and practical training with a special emphasis on green buildings, sustainable design, and placemaking.
ECOWEEK organizes international conferences and sustainable design workshops in cities around the world, bringing together professionals and students of Architecture, Design, Landscape Architecture, and other disciplines.
WHEN /
16 - 17 MAY 2020
HOW /
Get ready for the 48h online challenge of ECOWEEK including
lectures and workshops for the circular economy.
Ideal for architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers
(other disciplines are more than welcome!)
What you will need to bring for the workshops:
coffee, snacks, a computer, a design software you already use, a pen and
a sketchbook and of course your imagination :)
And guess what! It's for FREE
At the end of the workshop, registered participants
will receive a diploma of participation.
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You will find more details here - scroll down!
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Please notice ALL OUR WORKSHOPS ARE FULLY BOOKED.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED at this time.
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WHERE /
Wherever you choose from!
This is our first virtual meet-up!
WHY /
Current and future advancements show that the request for natural resources will rise three times in 2050.
Main reasons : the global economic growth & the increase of the world population.
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The building industry is responsible for the use of up to 40% of the materials produced globally and about 35% of the world’s waste.
In order to create a clean and safe living environment for future generations, a fundamental change has to be made.
According to EU waste legislation, European countries are aiming to a recovery target of construction and demolition waste up to 70%.
What is the key to increase the quality and quantity of recycling and reuse of construction and demolition materials ?
Moving from a Linear Economy (Produce-Use-Waste) to a Circular Economy in construction (Produce-Use-Reuse).
Design for Disassembly, Internet of Things and Material banks are being introduced to optimize circular construction practices.
Circular economy in construction ensures that, in addition to environmentally friendly materials,
resources in the construction chain are being reused as much as possible.
The ultimate goal : a completely circular construction industry in the near future!
THE SPEAKERS /
SUPERUSE STUDIOS
Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Jan, co-founder of the studio, designs interiors and buildings and develops strategies to facilitate the transition to a responsible society. He focuses on developing tools and processes and realises tangible projects that empower local exchange and
production, as an alternative to transporting and wasting our resources, products and components around the globe.
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Lizanne is skilled in Systems Thinking, Sustainable Design, Data Analysis and Strategy Design and joined the Research department of Superuse Studios in 2013. Projects that she worked on include studies on the resource and waste flows of industrial areas, reuse of building materials and strategy design for circular resource hubs in urban areas.
Jan Jongert, architect and co-founder
Lizanne DIrkx, architect
THE NEW RAW
Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
The New Raw works towards closing material cycles and strengthening local production, using an approach that is based on material research, digital design and fabrication.
The studio seeks better ways of applying circular economy concepts that push the boundaries of technological and social innovation, by seeing plastic waste as a resource.
The technology of The New Raw of in-situ recycling plastic waste with 3d printing has been tested on different cases and locations over the past two years, from marine plastic pollution to hyperlocal fabrication on refugee camps.
The studio’s work has been awarded for various design and innovation awards throughout the years.
Research & Design Studio
by architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki
Dr. K. Giannakopoulos
Athens, GREECE
Konstantinos, Physicist (1995, A.U.Th, Greece) with a PhD (1998, University of Liverpool), is a Researcher of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , expert in
nanostructural materials
characterisation. He has worked in ST Microelectronics (Advanced R&D, Crolles, France) and since 2002 he works in NCSR Demokritos on the growth and structural characterization (Electron Microscopy) of a large variety of nanomaterials and nanostructures. He is currently the coordinator for an EU mediated project on self-cleaning mirrors for solar energy collection.
The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”(NCSR "D"), is the largest multidisciplinary research centre in Greece and cnducts world-class basic and applied research in :
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology,
Energy & Environment, Biosciences, Particle and Nuclear Science, Informatics and Telecommunications.
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Researcher on Nanoscale
Characterisation of Advanced Materials at National Centre
for Scientific Research
"Demokritos"
MOR
MOR's mission is to transform under-performing office buildings into net-positive and flexible buildings guided by the principles of modularity and circularity.
Created in 2017 to represent Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in Solar Decathlon Europe 2019 is consisted of over 46 students from 8 disciplines and 20 different nationalities, all sharing a passion for sustainability.
MOR’s innovative and feasible solutions were awarded in 8 out of 10 contested categories, setting a world record and bringing the team the 2nd overall prize.
The ultimate vision of the team is to create a future-proof built environment that gives back to its surroundings more than what it takes away from it, with regards to energy, biomass, air, water, and materials.
Modular Office Renovation
2017, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Delft, THE NETHERLANDS
Benjamin Gill
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Ben has been working in the environmental sector for nearly 20 years, covering the fields of waste management, renewable energy and sustainable urban planning and development. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and member of the Institute of Environmental
Management and Assessment.
He plays a key role at Bioregional by developing the One Planet Living framework as a flexible tool that can be used to drive systemic change through an organisation and an industry. This framework has been used with some of the world’s most ambitious sustainable tourism projects. These include Les Villages Nature Paris with its geothermally heated Aqualagoon and regenerative landscape, and Singita’s ambitious conservation and sustainable tourism projects in east and southern Africa.
BIOREGIONAL
One Planet Living Manager
Dr. Elias Messinas
Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Elias is the Founding Chairman & Coordinator of ECOWEEK, a non-profit organization with the mission to raise environmental awareness and to promote the principles of social and environmental sustainability through design. ECOWEEK is active in 17 countries with a network in 56 countries.
ECOWEEK is about education, networking and expanding knowledge, acquiring experience and practical training with a special emphasis on green buildings, sustainable design, and placemaking.
ECOWEEK organizes international conferences and sustainable design workshops in cities around the world, bringing together professionals and students of Architecture, Design, Landscape Architecture, and other disciplines.
Founding Chairman & Coordinator ECOWEEK
Architect and environmental consultant, and social entrepreneur
THE WORKSHOPS /
All Workshops projects posted. Click below to view.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED at this time
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W1
SUPERUSE STUDIOS
During the workshop of the Value System Game,
we virtually put cards on the table to visualise the processes of a fictional project.
With our participants, we search for smart connections that can be made that lead to added value.
We point out which processes produce waste and how they can be turned into high-quality resources.
Participants find the bottlenecks of the project as well as the places where positive impact can be made.
Value System Game: Introduction to the circular design thinking with Lizanne Dirkx
W2
Aiming for passive or net-zero buildings is maybe no longer sufficient.
How can we go beyond that?
How can we treat buildings and neighborhoods as living organisms that can benefit and sustain each other, giving back to their environment more than they take away from it?
During the ECOWEEK 2009, the goal was to design a Passive Solar house of zero emissions in Athens. This year, we would like to take a step further and explore the possibilities of turning this passive house into NET POSITIVE with regards to Energy, Water, and Materials.
From passive to
net-positive design
with Aylin Ozcan & Anna Tsagkalou
MOR
W3
BIOREGIONAL One Planet Living
The workshop initially took
place during ECOWEEK's International Conference and Sustainable Design workshops in Prishtina, 2014 and it focused on the building of Thermokos, an abandoned pre-fabricated concrete building located in the outskirts of Prishtina in a developing area.
The adaptation and reuse of the Thermokos building
required a careful evaluation of what the neighborhood could host and what the building could offer.
This workshop focuses on the influence of urban design in the lifestyle choice.
The building of Thermokos
with Benjamin Gill
W4
SUPERUSE STUDIOS
Harvest map is an open-source online entrance to a huge material library.
Reused products from all over the world can be registered in the map to be reused again and again. The aim of this workshop is the design of a pavilion with reused materials requiring them a second life by having in mind that they have to re-enter the material library and be reused again.
Inspiring from the Ecoweek workshop in Thessaloniki 2015 where a wood Pavillion based in Aristotelous square was proposed, this time the aim is to design it from reused materials. Due to the short design time, the proposals could be draft designs, sketches, and diagrams.
Designing a Circular Pavilion: Upcycling in design using the Harvest map with Margarita Kyanidou
W5
Materials for a sustainable future
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"Materials Hunter"
play the role of the scientist who is changing the world.
The player enters a world that is entering its first civilisations phase.
By developing new materials
he enables the transition to the various phases to reach a futuristic and
sustainable society.
Do you feel like hunting?
Virtual game Materials for a sustainable future
by
Konstantinos Giannakopoulos
Materials hunter:
Virtual game Materials for a sustainable future
by Dr. Konstantinos Giannakopoulos
and Nafsica Mouti
W6
ECOWEEK​
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The workshop will be based on four ECOWEEK workshop projects placed in various locations across the world:
'Therapy Garden for Immigrant Women' in Copenhagen, DK
‘Healing gardens’ in Victor Babes Hospital Bucharest, RO
the ‘Sun Grove’ Jerusalem, IL
and two school courtyards in
Agios Nikolaos, Crete GR
Regarding circular economy,
the group will hqve the chance
to explore possible ways of expanding the circle of life of previous projects and also learn about circular design strategies, ways to create open spaces that heal and educate, using appropriate plants, landscaping, and securing materials based on recycled construction materials.
The workshop will be led by
Dr. Elias Messinas, Architect and Environmental Consultant,
Despoina Kouinoglou, Landscape Architect and Iris GIvoli Faiman, Architect and Environmental Consultant.
Virtual game Materials for a sustainable future
by
Konstantinos Giannakopoulos
Gardens that Heal, Recycle and Upcycle
with Dr. Elias Messinas, Despoina Kouinoglou
and Iris Givoli Faiman
THE PROGRAM /
All hours displayed are UTC/GMT+3 time zone
All sessions take place through virtual meeting platforms only
saturday 16/05
11 am * launch
OPENING INTRODUCTION
elias messinas ecoweek founding chairman
despoina kouinoglou ecoweek associate
11:30 - 12:00
LECTURE
jan jongert - superuse studios
harvest map
open-source platform for upcycling in construction
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12:00 - 12:30
LECTURE
panos sakkas & foteini setaki - the new raw
from waste to product with 3D printing
the approach towards a circular economy in design
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12:30 - 13:00
LECTURE
khusboo asrani, francesco longo, anna tsagalou
mor team, tu delft
together we can do mor
the ultimate vision to create a future-proof built environment
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13:00 - 13:30
BREAK (on your own)
13:30 - 14:00
LECTURE
konstantinos giannakopoulos, nafsica mouti
ncsr "demokritos"
advanced materials enable the circular economy
the transition to a sustainable world
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14:00 - 14:30
LECTURE
lizanne dirkx - superuse studios
Value System Game: A playful new economy
the superuse tool for the system of a project or company and the circular opportunities
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14:30 - 15:00
LECTURE
benjamin gill- bioregional one planet living
circularity from a lifestyle perspective
how urban design enables more sustainable choices,
and how this needs to be a driving force in design thinking
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15:00 - 15:30
CLOSING SESSION
elias messinas ecoweek founding chairman
despoina kouinoglou ecoweek associate
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15:30 - 16:00
BREAK (on your own)
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16:00 - 17:00
MEET ONLINE WITH THE TUTORS
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sunday 17/05
11 am * workshops
MEET ONLINE WITH THE TUTORS
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12:00 - 20:00
ONLINE DESIGN PROCESS
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20:00
DEADLINE
upload materials of your project
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20 pm * conclusions
CLOSING SESSION
elias messinas ecoweek founding chairman
despoina kouinoglou ecoweek associate
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THE PARTNERS /
THE ECOWEEK TEAM /
London, UK
Pavlos is an Architect Engineer, graduated from AUTH in 2019.
Currently studying at AA in London, his postgraduate is under the title Architecture and Urbanism – Social Ecologies at Design Research Laboratory (AADRL). Prior his postgraduate studies, Pavlos was part of Not a Number Architects, in Thessaloniki, where he had the opportunity to develop major architectural projects of different scale, such as“Rue de pain” bistro (Bucharest), Open Market and
Retail pavilions in Elounda,
Boutique Hotel design Santorini . During his undergraduate studies, Pavlos has taken part on many workshops and seminars including Ecoweek. He is interested in digital experimental design research and contemporary fabrication techniques, while strongly holds the vision of a greener and smarter future, where people and matter matters.
Delft, NL
Margarita was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Architectural Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace. She holds a Master’s degree in Building Technology from TU Delft and she is a researcher on Circular Economy in Construction and Design for Disassembly. As a student, she attended numerous Workshops and Seminars concerning Sustainable Development in Architecture (Ecoweek, Sudesco, Promoriver, etc). As an Architect Engineer, she worked with Superuse Studios in Rotterdam and dealt with Upcycling reused train parts in the construction sector. Under cooperation with MVRDV and Superuse Studios, her Master Thesis prototype was presented and exhibited in GEVEL 2020 in Rotterdam.
Lyon-Paris, FR
Sofia was born and raised in Thessaloniki. She adores every inch of her city, from people to buildings. When she was younger, she used to live with her family and three sisters in Bruxelles BG for 5 years
and adores speaking french.
Prior to her graduation in Architecture (AUTH 2017),
she also spent an erasmus semester in Lyon.
Sofia lives there eversince,
working in architectural firms
which focus on the development
of medium scale projects.
Often works voluntarily and believes highly in interacting with one another. Her moto
"together we stand/divided we fall".
London, UK
Vicky started exploring the world in 1994 in Thessaloniki. As soon as she was able to walk she never stopped roaming in Thessaloniki and soon a long way away from it too. Many long stops were done in Architecture school of AUTH in order to get her diploma and currently she has stopped in UCL’s Bio-integrated design Master. She loves continuous learning and volunteering for a cause, therefore she has participated in several actions and workshops, one of them being Thessaloniki’s Ecoweek. She is interested in innovative and peculiar design and materials, fresh ideas about unexplored topics, and most of all
she loves meeting new people
and sharing ideas because
that's what triggers the next step!
London, UK
Despoina is a landscape architect with a working experience in the U.K where she has been working in various scale rural and urban schemes and with the main focus in landscape planning and design. Prior to that, she took part in a rural architecture program in capacity building and development in Mt. Elgon in Kenya, as part of the PhD Research of Michiel Smits (T.U Delft
Avans Uni of Applied Sciences).
During her masters degree in
landscape architecture
( (Postgraduate Program of
Studies in Landscape Architecture, AUTh, 2017), she researched the redesign and integration of the refugee camps with the local communities through design. Since 2015 Despoina has been a part of ECOWEEK as an associate.
Thessaloniki, GR
Eleni was born in Thessaloniki and is an undergraduate student of Architecture at AUTH Greece. She has been a part of many workshops and volunteer actions such as Open House, Enhancements, High School Engineering, European Youth Capital in 2014 etc. In 2015, she participated in an educational workshop to New York where she visited worldwide known universities and important global Architectural Offices such as COOKFOX and Thornton Tomasetti. According to her experience so far and personal sensitivity, sustainable design and eco-friendly materials
are the future of architecture
for the years to come.
Jerusalem, IL
Founding Chairman & Coordinator of ECOAMA & ECOWEEK
architect and environmental consultant, senior lecturer and social entrepreneur, graduate of Yale School of Architecture, Environmental Design Dept. of Bezalel Academy, and holds a doctorate from the National Technical University of Athens. He attended the M.Sc. program on Environment and Development at NTUA. Elias teaches sustainable design at Holon Institute of Technology and Patras University, and is the author of numerous articles, two books, and the editor of several catalogues and ECOWEEK The Book#1: 50 Voices for Sustainability.
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