Wednesday 17th of June | 7.30pm - 9.30pm | walk-in from 7.00 | Keilezaal
CIRCULAR COMMUNITIES
From local action to global inspiration: how communities hold the key to a circular future, engaging in entrepreneurial practices that are collective, relational and regenerative in nature.
Building on the first edition of Circular Communities (2022), this sequel explores culturally diverse, community-led approaches to circular resource stewardship around the world. These practices demonstrate how communities worldwide collectively generate multiple values – ecological, cultural, social, aesthetic and financial – by closing resource loops.
In their new book, urban designer Els Leclercq, architect Mo Smit and regenerative entrepreneurship expert Fátima Delgado Medina expand on the Circular Value Flower, a value-based model designed to analyse, communicate and initiate circular initiatives. It enables a holistic approach toward multiple value creation by linking communities with the wider eco-system of resource stewardship, stakeholders, and policy and spatial contexts.
Circular Value Flower
Essential for communities, citizens, spatial designers and policymakers, this book supports initiatives to grow, connect and form networks of action, fostering flourishing circular communities worldwide.
In summary the book:
> Showcases inspiring, community-led circular practices from around the world
> Offers an alternative perspective on the relationship between resources, nature and humans
> Introduces a design method for an alternative economic model, one where value is not extracted from resources but co-produced through relationships, between people, ecosystems, places, and institutions over time, rooted in cooperation, trust and reciprocity.
> Serves as a practical guide for communities, designers, and policymakers committed to expanding circular initiatives and fostering systemic change.
Programme
The programme will include presentations, short videos and discussions with representatives of the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative, Pelican Bay Cooperative, Nuvoni Centre for Research, Easy Urban Green Growers, Lewmo, Kampung Kollektive and Bouwtuin.
Left top: Regeneration of Mathare River riparian landscape, nairobi
Right top: CVF workshop with Bale Bengong in Bali
Left corner: VF workshop with Pelican Bay Cooperative at Galápagos Islands
Right corner: Resources Station, Afrikaanderwijk | Picture by Frank Hanswijk
Diagram Regional scale, Bioregional Construction Programme, Gooi & Vechtstreek