Design for Freedom Podcast
Design for Freedom Podcast
Podcast Description
The Design for Freedom podcast focuses on the elimination of forced and child labour in global building materials supply chains. By 2030, global spending in construction is set to reach $17.5 trillion. But current estimates have over 28 million people around the world held in forced labour conditions - many of whom extract the materials and make the products that go into our homes, schools, office buildings, and landscapes. The podcast digs into the uncomfortable truths about the global supply of critical products and materials relied upon by the construction sector, and the challenges that persist – and it provides the insights, perspective, information and tools that you need in order to take action and be part of the solution. Design for Freedom is a movement created by Grace Farms Foundation in 2020. Three principles underpin its mission to eliminate forced and child labour from the building materials supply chain; to find and address forced and child labour, to pursue ethical decarbonisation and to prioritise circularity and the use of regenerative materials. The podcast is presented by Elaine Mitchel-Hill, International Lead at Design for Freedom and the first episode is out on 26th March. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast covers critical themes such as ethical sourcing in construction, human rights issues in supply chains, and sustainable practices, with episodes exploring topics like the sourcing of natural stone and paints, the impact of unethical labour on communities, and the importance of circularity in materials usage.
The Design for Freedom podcast focuses on the elimination of forced and child labour in global building materials supply chains. By 2030, global spending in construction is set to reach $17.5 trillion. But current estimates have over 28 million people around the world held in forced labour conditions – many of whom extract the materials and make the products that go into our homes, schools, office buildings, and landscapes. The podcast digs into the uncomfortable truths about the global supply of critical products and materials relied upon by the construction sector, and the challenges that persist – and it provides the insights, perspective, information and tools that you need in order to take action and be part of the solution. Design for Freedom is a movement created by Grace Farms Foundation in 2020. Three principles underpin its mission to eliminate forced and child labour from the building materials supply chain; to find and address forced and child labour, to pursue ethical decarbonisation and to prioritise circularity and the use of regenerative materials.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Design for Freedom podcast focuses on the elimination of forced and child labour in global building materials supply chains.
By 2030, global spending in construction is set to reach $17.5 trillion. But current estimates have over 28 million people around the world held in forced labour conditions – many of whom extract the materials and make the products that go into our homes, schools, office buildings, and landscapes.
The podcast digs into the uncomfortable truths about the global supply of critical products and materials relied upon by the construction sector, and the challenges that persist – and it provides the insights, perspective, information and tools that you need in order to take action and be part of the solution.
Design for Freedom is a movement created by Grace Farms Foundation in 2020. Three principles underpin its mission to eliminate forced and child labour from the building materials supply chain; to find and address forced and child labour, to pursue ethical decarbonisation and to prioritise circularity and the use of regenerative materials.
The third episode of the series focuses on natural stone, through the lens of technical innovation and what this means for circularity, and also the elimination of forced and child labour in the extraction and processing of stone from some key geographies. We look at how natural stone, quarried, processed, transported and reused under the right conditions, can be a highly a sustainable material, and how technological developments in the pre-tensioning of stone and its prefabrication all open up new possibilities for ‘urban mining’.
Elaine is joined by Steve Webb, Director at Webb Yates Engineers – an award winning structural, civil, and building services engineering design practice based in London, UK, and Pierre Bidaud, Creative Director at The Stone Masonry Company, and also a founding member of The Stone Collective which promotes stone as a resilient, low carbon footprint material.
You can read a full transcrtipt of the episode here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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