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 second episode of the series focuses on the Venice Biennale of Architecture. It is presented by Elaine Mitchel-Hill, International Lead at Design for Freedom. The guests are Chelsea Thatcher, Chief Strategy Officer and Creative Director at Grace Farms Foundation, and the person behind the With Every Fibre Exhibit at Grace Farms, and Nina Cooke John, Artist, Architect and Founding Principal at Studio Cooke John Architecture and Design who’s monument to abolitionist Harriet Tubman, Shadow of a Face, provides the focal point for the Design for Freedoms’ Venice Biennale Exhibit. 

You can read a full transcrtipt of the episode here.

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