Dezeen has teamed up with Dutch Design Week to host a live talk about how designers and architects can help remove carbon from the atmosphere. Tune in from 11:00am Eindhoven time on Saturday 16 October.
This special edition of Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talks series looks at ways of tackling climate change including carbon-capturing materials, net-zero cities and alternatives to fossil fuels.
An estimated 40 per cent of global carbon emissions stem from buildings and infrastructure, which makes the built environment one of the largest contributors to global warming.
Titled Good Design for a Bad World: Carbon, the talk will explore the various ways that architects are trying to achieve net-zero developments and offer sustainable alternatives.
Taking place ahead of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November, the talk builds on Dezeen's pioneering carbon revolution editorial series, which explored ways of capturing atmospheric carbon and putting it to use on earth.
Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will moderate the talk, which will feature contributions from biomaterials researcher Darshil Shah, Hélène Chartier of C40 Cities, designer Teresa van Dongen and solar design specialist Marjan van Aubel.
Darshil Shah is a biomaterials researcher at Cambridge University
Shah works at Cambridge University as an associate professor in materials at the Department of Architecture and a senior researcher at the university's Centre for Natural Material...