Webinar 1 – Recycle architecture

In the first episode of the project space interview series, Peter Kneidinger from Materialnomaden discusses their approach towards upcycling and reusing materials in construction. Peter delves into how they pick and utilize the materials they use, and find new ways of including them as part of a fashionable and sustainable design. Materialnomaden are well known for their work in the field of circular architecture. Not only do they recycle materials and make it a part of their process, they also create new and unique designs and uses from recovered building materials.

Webinar 2 – Wastelessness

In the second episode of the project space interview series, Daniela Hinteregger from Zero Waste Austria discusses ways to eliminate waste and rethinking waste management in the Austrian hotel industry. Daniela discusses how they created a guideline for hotels to foster waste management and ensure waste prevention. In this guideline, they promote new sustainable design and ideas for different sectors of the hotel industry. Their approach is based on bringing both, hotels and customers closer together to handle waste. Zero Waste Austria are well known for their mission to make Zero Waste better known in Austria and Europe, and promoting a Zero Waste culture in all areas. For them, Zero Waste means rethinking daily habits harmful to the environment. This needs re-invention of simple tasks and out-of-the-box thinking. In their experience, this creates a field in innovation, as part of which, waste can be made use of as creative, economic and sustainable resource.

Webinar 3 – Circularity

In this episode of the Project Space Interview Series, Andreas Ellenberger from Circonnact discusses circular design and innovation. Andreas discusses the many ways in which circular economy can be applied. Circonnact aims to empower people in businesses and cities to create sustainable and regenerative solutions with circular economy. They address economic, social and environmental challenges with a circular, systemic and nature-inspired approach in projects they support as consultant or mediator while looking into the process.

Workshop at Jobfabrik

When during the summer of 2021, COVID19 restrictions were briefly loosened, we chose to work with very young people between the ages of 14-17. Most of them had left school and were still in the orientation phase. Jobfabrik is an institution commis sioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs in Austria, funded by the ESF. It focusses on providing young people who need support or orientation before beginning vocational training or further school education. The common goal is to achieve a specific „training fitness“ (the individual training maturity) for these young people. Trainers work with young people in different working environments (e.g. office field, gardening or handcrafts), to provide them with a sneak preview on what kinds of jobs are available in their preferred field and to offer them unique perspectives and insights for their future. We specifically targeted the young people at jobfabrik because we view them as being potential implementers of circular economy principles in all areas of professional life in the future.

https://wonderland.cx/news/wonderland-meets-zero-waste-austria/

https://wonderland.cx/news/wonderland-meets-circonnact/

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