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Podcast: Regenerative change with Angharad Palmer of Hawkins\Brown

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Eleanor Young

Angharad Palmer on seaweed, being a change maker and embedding a culture of regenerative design at Hawkins\Brown. The podcast also features regenerative-design thinkers Ben Bridgens of Newcastle University and Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architects

Architect Angharad Palmer has spent much of her career client-side, working for developer Pocket Living when she was named a RIBAJ Rising Star in 2017. In this podcast, in partnership with Origin Doors and Windows, she talks to Eleanor Young about how her childhood growing up in Eryri National Park in Wales influenced her, the impassioned discussions around her family table about regenerative living and working, her decade client-side and her return to architecture at Hawkins\Brown specialising in regenerative and participatory futures.

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We join her as she documents her journey of change-making, from imbuing design into every project at Pocket Living to refocusing on community design and big ideas in south London’s Lewisham shopping centre redevelopment for LandSec, turning an out-there idea into a believable solution.

  • A vision for a renewed estate.
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    A vision for a renewed estate. Credit: Hawkins\Brown
  • Lewisham Peoples Day.
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    Lewisham Peoples Day. Credit: Angharad Palmer
  • A regenerative place.
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    A regenerative place. Credit: Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West
  • A place of synergy and innovation.
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    A place of synergy and innovation. Credit: Hawkins\Brown
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Palmer is at the start of her journey to up the game on regenerative design at Hawkins\Brown, working on strategies to make regeneration an integral part of projects. We ask if she will be sharing best practice. Happily yes! Listen to hear some of her pointers on thinking regeneratively, for example how elements of the design can work in more than one way to bring richness to a project, and dwelling on early briefing stages. Start small, think local and think unique she advises. Below Palmer offers a reading and listening list to get you up to speed.

Angharad Palmer, Ben Bridgens and Michael Pawlyn.
Angharad Palmer, Ben Bridgens and Michael Pawlyn. Credit: Angharad Palmer, Kelly Hill Photography

The podcast also features contributions from the cutting edge of research and practice into regenerative design.  Newcastle University professor of regenerative architecture Ben Bridgens explains how he sees regenerative design emerging with reference to some of his material experiments. And Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architects, a founder member of Architects Declare and author of Biomimicry in Architecture and Flourish, asks what can be done if we reframed our thinking about design to design as nature and how biomimicry can contribute to regenerative design.

Presented by Eleanor Young, produced by Paul Hirons and Flo Armitage-Hookes, original music by Steffen Addington.

RIBAJ Meets series three is produced in partnership with Origin Doors and Windows

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Regeneration reading and listening list

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