BK Talks: Reinventing the wheel? Circularity and the built environment. With Arjan van Timmeren

BK Talks: Reinventing the wheel? Circularity and the built environment

Arjan van Timmeren (Professor of Environmental Technology & Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft) will steer a discussion about the ongoing conversation that, understanding the city as an organism, proposes, for over a decade, to change our linear society into a circular one, closing urban inflows and outflows into cycles.

What are the technologies that help us sense the city? How to properly use the available data about waste? How to turn our cities into true mines where all waste is reused? How does circularity contribute to a socially sustainable urban development and regeneration? What are the social implications of the so-called doughnut city? What is the role of the citizen in the fabrication of a circular model of city?...

Panelists:
Ellen van Bueren
Darinka Czischke
Pablo van der Lugt
Arnout Sabbe
Rusne Sileryte
Alexander Wandl

The Public Programs of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, are a platform for those involved in the fabrication of the city to share their ideas about the understanding, conception and production of the built environment.

Held every Thursday evening throughout the academic year, the Public Programs include the BK Talks and the Berlage Keynotes, as well exhibitions, workshops, seminars and colloquia. These events are aimed at connecting our faculty, students and scholars with the myriad disciplines and cultures that shape our world, with an eye towards cultivating public activities beyond the Delft Campus.

The Public Programs build the Faculty’s relationships with allied institutions and the scholarly community at large. They are an invitation to the broader academic community and public to engage in discussions about the world in which we want to live and reflect on ideas to achieve its transformation.