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thoughtful homes that look as if they have been fashioned from the geology, the forests and the landscapes around them. Which (as stated above) in some cases, they have. ‘Tere’s a house underway where we’ve sorted and bagged 40 tonnes of chalk (from site excavation) to use in the construction,’ he says. On the same site, a dilapidated blockwork bungalow has been carefully dismantled so that its bricks can be used either as a floor finish or as aggregate for renders or screed. ‘It doesn’t save you money,’ he says, ‘but it does save you resources.’ But architecture is only one part of the waste problem that current design methodologies exacerbate. Over at the Design Council, a major refurbishment of its own mission and purpose is already under way, under the banner Design for Planet. Current priorities include tackling waste in packaging, promoting retrofitting and repairability – essentially, the aim is to be designing things that can be fixed.


Two years ago, they launched the first Design for Planet Festival in 2021, at the V&A Dundee. Last year it went virtual – but garnered 7,000 inernational participants. Tis


This page A fragrant, sculptural installation of fresh thatch, constructed on-site at the Building Centre


Duncan Baker- Brown’s second edition of the Re-Use Atlas launches in autumn 2023. To book a place at the 2023 Design for Planet Festival, go to designcouncil.org.uk/ our-mission/design- for-planet/design-for- planet-festival-2023


year it is back in real life, and scheduled to take place in October, in Norwich on the campus of UEA (registration went live in April). Tere will be two days of talks and workshops to generate a much better informed design community across all disciplines, including graphics, fashion and interior design


to ensure designing for a more sustainable planet is ingrained across the industry. I’m going to be booking a place, for sure. While it’s great to see so much grassroots and individual activity in rewriting the rules of how and why we design, it will take leadership to make new, resilient practices stick.


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