Green Canvas
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInsightful conversations with leading creative minds helping to tackle the environmental crisis. From designers using sustainable materials to artists and photographers exploring climate issues. We learn more about their work and find out what tips they have for you to help create the sustainable future our planet needs.
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Maurizio Montalti: magic mycelium
August 02, 2021 17:46 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBMaurizio Montalti is a designer, researcher, educator, entrepreneur and one of the early pioneers in the development of mycelium-based technologies. Maurizio is the founder of Officina Corpuscoli, a transdisciplinary studio with a focus on the design and production of natural biomaterials. The studio’s work has exhibited globally, in institutions like MoMA, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris and The Design Museum, London. Maurizio is also co-founder, chairman and research & development direc...
Pam Longobardi: art and the plastic problem
July 19, 2021 14:42 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBPam Longobardi is an artist, environmentalist and Professor of Art at Georgia State University. In 2006, after discovering the mountainous piles of plastic debris the ocean was depositing on the shores of Hawaii, Pam began collecting and utilising plastic as the primary material for her artwork in a project called Drifters. Now a global collaborative entity, the initiative has removed tens of thousands of pounds of plastic debris from environments and shores across the planet and transforme...
Brendan MacFarlane: reinventing cities with eco-friendly architecture
July 05, 2021 14:40 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBBrendan MacFarlane is a leading architect and co-founder of the Paris-based architectural firm Jakob + MacFarlane - a multidisciplinary architectural agency with a focus on environmental transition and digital culture. Jakob + MacFarlane are the initiators of the French chapter of ‘Architects Declare Climate & Ecological Emergency’ – a network of architectural practices committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency. They also recently won the C40 Reinventing Cities awards fo...
Elissa Brunato: exploring the materials shaping our future
June 21, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBElissa Brunato is a designer and researcher who explores the intersection between human demands and wider ecological systems. This exploration has led Elissa to tackle the huge environmental footprint caused by the production of modern-day sequins. Industrial sequins are made from petroleum-based plastic or synthetic resins and due to their miniature size exacerbate the micro-plastic issues our planet currently faces. So in 2019, Elissa worked alongside material scientists to create ...
Clive Russell: designing Extinction Rebellion
June 07, 2021 11:49 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBClive Russell is a prominent graphic designer and central part of the team behind Extinction Rebellion’s brand identity, design toolkit and cover of Extinction Rebellion’s official handbook – This Is Not A Drill. Since 2018, Extinction Rebellion’s iconic font-type, colour scheme and striking graphics have helped catapult them into a global movement with hundreds of thousands of followers across the world. Along with co-founder Charlie Waterhouse, Clive Russell is the design director of This ...
Clive Russell: designing a movement
June 07, 2021 11:49 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBClive Russell is a prominent graphic designer and central part of the team behind Extinction Rebellion’s brand identity, design toolkit and cover of Extinction Rebellion’s official handbook – This Is Not A Drill. Since 2018, Extinction Rebellion’s iconic font-type, colour scheme and striking graphics have helped catapult them into a global movement with hundreds of thousands of followers across the world. Along with co-founder Charlie Waterhouse, Clive Russell is the design director ...
Nienke Hoogvliet: design as a tool to shape new perspectives
May 24, 2021 15:30 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBNienke Hoogvliet is a designer, artist and founder of Studio Nienke Hoogvliet – a design studio for material research, experimental and conceptual design. At the centre of Nienke’s work is a focus on materials that contribute to a more holistic world and raise awareness for the social and environmental issues in the textile, leather and food industry. Studio Nienke Hoogvliet’s projects have ranged from creating rugs out of sea algae, to making household objects using reclaimed toilet pap...
Steve Waters: climate on centre stage
May 10, 2021 15:25 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBSteve Waters is a renowned playwright whose diptych of plays on climate change, The Contingency Plan, are amongst the most celebrated plays tackling the subject. Upon its showing at the world-famous Bush Theatre in London in 2009, it was was labelled “an urgent wake-up call” by The Guardian, “a stunning theatrical knock-out” by The Daily Telegraph and “the first and best British play on climate change” by Time Out." Steve's other plays include A Vulnerable Place (2014), Temple (2015)...
Lydia Bolton: refashioning fashion
April 26, 2021 15:45 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBLydia Bolton is a sustainably-focused fashion designer that turns unwanted materials into custom-made womenswear clothing. Lydia founded her namesake brand in 2019 after taking a course at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and learning in-depth about the huge amounts of garments and textiles sent to landfill each year. She has since been featured in Vogue as a "Girl on a Mission", in Euro News as a "Designer Fighting Waste" and has collaborated with brands like Reebok and Nicce on s...
Jason deCaires Taylor: sculpting homes for marine life
April 12, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBJason deCaires Taylor is a globally-known sculptor and environmentalist who first gained international attention in 2006 with the creation of the world’s first underwater sculpture park. Now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic, the park was instrumental in the government declaring the site, which was situated in the West Indies, as a National Marine Protected Area. Jason's sculptures are submerged into the ocean where they act as artificial reefs and beco...
Valerie Leonard: documenting the human face of the environmental crisis
March 29, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBValerie Leonard is an award-winning documentary photographer focused on human and environmental issues. Her mission to capture the dignity of people that live and work in difficult conditions has taken her to places like the open coal-pits in North East India, the Sulphur Mines in Indonesia and the towering landfill sites nestled within the Himalayas. Valerie's work has been featured in a host of globally-known publications like National Geographic, The Guardian and Huffington Post and a...
J Henry Fair: the horror of industrial pollution
March 15, 2021 07:30 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBJ Henry Fair is a photographer and environmentalist whose aerial photographs of oil spills, damaged coastlines and mining and gas extraction sites reveal some of the many horrors of industrial pollution. At first glance, his photographs strike you with their beauty. But at second glance, the ugly realities of what they reveal is laid bare – from oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico to rising sea levels around America’s coastlines. J Henry Fair's work has received widespread critical acclaim and ...
John Sabraw: turning toxic waste into eco-friendly paint
March 01, 2021 14:43 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBJohn Sabraw is an artist, environmentalist and professor of art at Ohio University who collaborates with scientists to create paint from iron oxide extracted from streams polluted by abandoned coal mines. John's work has been featured in a host of globally known publications like The New Scientist, The Huffington Post and Hyper Allergic and exists in collections around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art. We spoke to him about a range of topics, including what led him to...