Name: Balancing sustainability with Eeva Furman by Matti.kuittinen
Duration: 33 min 55 s
Description: How can we simultaneously address different aspects of sustainability that might be conflicting? Eeva Furman, secretery-general for Finland´s National Commission on Sustainable Development suggests that we should "re-marry with nature" and take into account the needs of future generations and non-humans.

How can an artificial intelligence support the design of carbon neutral buildings? Can AI help us to consider the needs of non-humans in a participatory design process? In this episode, we embrace posthumanism in an interview with Chat GPT.

Do androids dream of carbon neutrality? Interview of ChatGPT

How could we utilise and enhance the climate benefits of wood construction? In this episode, we are discussing the flows of carbon from forests to products and to buildings with professor Mark Hughes from Aalto University.

Carbon flows from forests to buildings with Mark Hughes

How should we prepare for the uncertain future in the built environment? Is climate neutrality already an insufficient climate goal? With professor John Schellnhuber, the founding director of Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, we discussed the turbulence of the future weather and the science behind the scenarios.

Is this how architecture ends? Interview of John Schellnhuber, part 2

Is this how architecture ends? Interview of John Schellnhuber, part 1

What needs to be taken into account, when designing an exhibition building that can be converted into a school? In this episode, architect Jaakko Torvinen takes us to an audio tour into the award-winning Little Finlandia pavillion in Helsinki.

Designed to be relocated - Jaakko Torvinen

Is the global resource scarcity leading us into re-interpretation of architecture? How have the Icelandic people learnt to live in an island with limited construction materials but with abundance of energy? A discussion with architect, urban planner and lecturer Karl Kvaran from Iceland.

Inspired by resource scarcity with Karl Kvaran

How can we simultaneously address different aspects of sustainability that might be conflicting? Eeva Furman, secretery-general for Finland´s National Commission on Sustainable Development suggests that we should "re-marry with nature" and take into account the needs of future generations and non-humans.

Balancing sustainability with Eeva Furman

What turned an award-winning architect to promoting decarbonized design and wood architecture all over the world? Discussion with Alan Organschi, principal at GrayOrganschi Architecture (New Haven, USA), senior member of the faculty at Yale School of Architecture, and director of the innovation lab at Bauhaus Earth.

Decarbonizing design with Alan Organschi

How can architects become changemakers that design for a better future? Together with professor Sofie Pelsmakers of Tampere University we discuss architecture as activism, bewildering of the built environment, and the power of design for doing good.

Balancing sustainability with Eeva Furman

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