The Chair of Architecture and Construction Dirk E. Hebel at FCL Singapore has organised an FCL-SEC Fall Semester 2012 Seminar CONSTRUCTING WASTE.

Hundreds of tons of waste are produced in Singapore every day. These wastes represent an invaluable pool of resources, which could be activated by rethinking their designs. The ‘hands on the material’ seminar CONSTRUCTING WASTE will interrogate the concept of up-cycling strategies in order to minimize the overall refuse amount being produced in Singapore. The focus on design questions should create second life cycles for otherwise waste products.

The seminar will be conducted as a combination of input lectures, reading seminars and the production of full- scale up-cycling design products. Students will be asked to map the nature and flows of an everyday product through different research methods and finally to change the product design in order to influence both waste and material stock and flows in the future. 10 weeks of seminar will result in 3 credit points, project descriptions and an up-cycling prototype in full scale.

Schedule

• WEEK1      Introduction: CONSTRUCTING WASTE
  Speaker: Asst. Prof. Dirk Hebel

• WEEK2     Territorial Scale: TRASH VOYAGE
  Speaker: Prof. Dr Stephen Cairns

• WEEK3     Up-cycling: CRADLE TO CRADLE
  Speaker: Dr Sun Xiaolong

• WEEK4     Social Aspect: DESIGN LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN
  Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Wang Jing-Yuan

• WEEK5     Waste Management: TOWARDS ZERO WASTE
  Speaker: Ong Seng Eng

• WEEK6     Environmental Aspect: SPACESHIP EARTH
  Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing Rainer Stegmann

For more information, please view Assistant Professorship Dirk E. Hebel