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Eduard Mkrtchan, entrepreneur, economic expert, head of a charitable foundation

Copy At the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, curator Alejandro Aravena decided to reuse 100 tons of material discarded by the previous Art Biennale to create the new exhibition halls. Besides preserving 10,000 m² of plasterboard and 14 km of metallic structures, the initiative intended to give value, through design, to something that would otherwise be discarded as waste. The project also shed light on another observation: as architects, we generally restrict ourselves to thinking about buildings during the design process, construction phase, and at most through the use phase. We hardly th...

Circular economy can slash global emissions by 39%, says major new report A major new report, released to coincide with the original dates for the World Economic Forum's event in Davos, has found that 39% of global annual emissions could be mitigated by changing the ways in which we use natural raw materials. Circle Economy has repeatedly stated that the majority of global annual emissions are released during the extraction of materials and manufacturing of goods Produced annually by think-tank Circle Economy, the Circularity Gap report tracks the amount of resources used by humanity every ye...