DLD Circular 2021
2021-09-07
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as the organisers put it
Wasting resources is expensive and unsustainable. The circular economy preserves natural resources and offers many new business opportunities…
who it's for
sustainability managers, designers and product designers, circular-economy entrepreneurs, architects and urban planners, corporate strategy leaders, fashion industry professionals
topics
recycled-metal musical instruments; robotic copper-sorting automation; voice-driven acoustic architecture; electrified vehicle targets and batteries; battery recyclability and reuse; net-zero abatement cost curves; green hydrogen for industry; waste-heat reuse in industry; spirulina high-efficiency farming; carbon calculators for consumer purchases; ai-driven food surplus exchanges; refurbished electronics marketplaces
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| An Artistic View on Circularity | Es Devlin, Hans Zimmer, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 30m |
Conversation reports concrete experiments: a film score uses recycled Boeing metals instruments built from salvaged plane alloys and played successfully on… | ||
| Leading a Circular Transformation | Ilka Horstmeier, Anne Kawalerski | 25m |
BMW states specific targets: 10 million electrified cars on the road (ambition announced), about one million electrified cars sold so far, a dozen pure… | ||
| The Path to Net Zero: How to Reach Climate Neutrality in Europe | Solveigh Hieronimus, Stefan Helmcke | 12m |
McKinsey modeling maps every industry and energy use into an abatement cost curve showing about 3.5 billion tons of abatement needed on average to 2050, and… | ||
| Enabling the Vision of a Circular Economy – | Markus Haas, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Victoria Ossadnik | 26m |
Steel mill waste heat now powers beer fermentation, an implemented reuse E.On facilitates; 800,000 PV roofs are already integrated into energy networks and… | ||
| Sustainable Food | Lior Shalev | 13m |
SimpliiGood grows fresh spirulina as a food ingredient with 74% protein and a complete amino acid profile, doubles biomass every 24 hours, and farms in desert… | ||
| The Extreme Self | Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 30m |
New book "The Extreme Self" argues social media turns feelings into raw material and names this emotional capitalism, claiming the digital economy now uses 10… | ||
| Building a Sustainable Digital Economy: | Nachson Mimran, Koberdanz, Greg Williams | 30m |
Mastercard deploys a Mastercard carbon calculator with fintech Economy to show carbon per purchase to nearly 3 billion cardholders and backs the Priceless… | ||
| Move: The Economy of the Future | Parag Khanna | 18m |
Predicts large-scale population shifts as NASA climate‑suitability maps show red zones losing livability and places like the Great Lakes, Scandinavia, western… | ||
| Architecture for the Future | Francis Kéré | 21m |
Six years of iterative work produce a campus in Burkina Faso using clay‑plus‑cement walls, locally harvested regrowth wood, on‑site mockups and a labor program… | ||
| Making Fashion Sustainable & Circular | Gabriela Hearst, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 24m |
A designer who grew up on a Uruguayan farm applies its pre-industrial practices to fashion: developing Tipa biodegradable packaging, switching to botanical… | ||
| Tech-Enabled Circular Marketplaces | Kilian Kaminski, Alexander Piutti, Fritz Oidtmann, Emilie Vanpoperinghe | 36m |
Three startups show concrete fixes: a platform building an AI-driven B2B food exchange that uses APIs and predictive matching to consolidate oversupply… | ||
| Creating Future Worlds | Liam Young | 18m |
A speculative plan concentrates 10 billion people into a single hyperdense metropolis that would occupy about 0.02 of global land by mining and repurposing… | ||
| Welcome | Steffi Czerny | 12m |
Welcome frames circularity as a concrete moonshot: it calls for circularity is a moonshot, massive investment in green technology, and a single global carbon… | ||
| The Circular Mindset | Jens Thiemer, Chris Grantham | 21m |
Argues that business must shift from machine brain to forest brain, redesigning value as circulating and regenerative rather than only efficient. Cites 45% of… | ||
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