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SmART Cities and Waste – London Workshop: Urban Waste Streams & Flows
Date:
Thursday 6th April 2017
Venue:
Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT
Room 305 (Third Floor), The Grove (Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries)
Programme / Speakers
9.30
Arrivals - Tea & Coffee
9.45
Graeme Evans (Co-I), Middlesex University
Alex Plows (PI), Bangor University
Host Introduction & Welcome;
Urban Waste Streams & Flows: Reflection
on the workshop findings and themes
10.00 Lian Lundy, Middlesex University
Opportunities and challenges of managing
urban rainfall run off diffuse waste
pollution using green infrastructure
10.30 Diane Purchase, Middlesex University
Electronic waste – an emerging global
environmental and health challenge in the
21st century
11.00 James Baker, SELOR, Amsterdam
Nanotechnology, water and waste streams
11.30 Nathalie Gilbert, Thames 21
INCATCH Horizon2020 project
11.40 Barbara Herridge, North London Waste
Authority (NLWA)
The NLWA and challenges of waste collection and
management in north London
Dimitra Rappou, NLWA
North London Waste Prevention Programme
12.30 Lunch
1.15
Kim Trogal, University for the Creative Arts
The Politics of Collective Repair
Artists Presentations, Exhibition and Workshop
1.45
Kuniko Maeda, Artist/Textiles Designer - Paper into sculpture
2.15
Alison Harper, Bath Spa University - From Materialism to Materiality
2.30
Lara Luna Bartley, Artist/Maker - Cardboard-making workshop
3.30
Group workshops: Urban Waste Streams & Flows
4.30
Plenary
5.00
Summing Up and Next steps/Bangor Workshop
Speakers/Presenters
Dr Graeme Evans
Professor of Urban Cultures & Design, Middlesex University
Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries, Director of the Art &
Design Research Institute (www.adri.mdx.ac.uk);
SmArt Cities & Waste Research Network Co-Investigator
Dr Alex Plows
Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University,
Wales. Alex is Principal Investigator (PI) for the SmART Cities &
Waste Research Network. Alex and Graeme are also both Co-Is on a
3-year AHRC-funded Connected Communities project: Towards
Hydrocitizenship (www.hydrocitizenship.com)
www.bangor.ac.uk/so/staff/plows_research.php.en
Dr Lian Lundy
Professor of Environmental Science in the Urban Pollution
Research Centre. Her research has focused on sustainable
stormwater management, the transport and behaviour of
urban pollutants and the use of multi-criteria analysis and
decision support tools at a national and international level.
Recent research has applied an ecosystem approach within
an urban context and begun to consider the use of
sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) as multifunctional ecosystem service providers within the context of
water sensitive cities.www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our
people/staff-directory/profile/lundy-lian
Dr Diane Purchase
Diane Purchase is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Science & Technology at Middlesex University. She is also the
Honorary Secretary of the Committee of Heads of
Environmental Sciences and a Fellow of the Institution of
Environmental Sciences in the UK. Her keen interest in the
environment has led to her chairing a task group funded by
the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
(IUPAC) to examine the environmental and health challenges
of E-waste. She has organised a satellite workshop on this
topic in the 15th International Conference on Chemistry and
the Environment (ICCE) in Leipzig in 2015, and will be cochair a session on ‘Contaminant Issues in the Waste Stream’
in the 16th ICCE in Oslo in June 2017. She is also organising a
symposium on e-waste in the 47th World Chemistry
Congress in July 2017 in São Paulo. www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/our-people/staff-directory/profile/purchase-diane
Dr James Baker
James is an expert in biomining - the extraction of
metals/trace elements from waste streams – and is Project
coordinator of the Selor EEIG project under the EU
Copernicus programme. He has been International Project
Manager at TNO International and Rijks Geologische Dienst.
Dr Kim Trogal
Kim joined the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) School
of Architecture in Autumn 2016 as Lecturer Architecture
History & Theory. She completed her architectural studies at
the University of Sheffield, including a PhD in Architecture
(2012) for which she was awarded the RIBA LKE Ozolins
Studentship. Prior to joining the school, Kim was a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Central St Martins,
University of the Arts London (2014-16) and a Postdoc
Research Assistant (2012-15) at the Sheffield School of
Architecture for the school’s Building Local Resilience
Research Platform. Kim is co-editor, with Professor Doina
Petrescu, of the book ‘The Social (Re)Production of
Architecture’. www.uca.ac.uk/staff-profiles/kim-trogal/
Barbara Herridge
External Relations Manager, North London Waste Authority
Dimitra Rappou
Dimitra is the Waste Prevention Manager at North London
Waste Authority where she is in charge of devising and
developing north London’s waste prevention programme,
leading the NLWA waste prevention team and working in
partnership with the north London councils on waste
prevention, reduction and reuse projects. Her academic
qualifications include Bachelor of Science from Aristotle
University in Forestry and Environmental Science, Master of
Science in Environmental Science from University of Stirling
and Master of Science in Business Management of Waste
and Resources from Anglia Ruskin University, where she
focused her research on European waste prevention policy.
Dimitra obtained experience in waste management through
previous employment in the London Boroughs of Camden
and Haringey, where she devised education and outreach
programmes, as well as her employment as Senior
Campaign Officer for sustainability Charity ‘Waste Watch’.
Throughout her career she managed a range of behavioural
change and education projects and worked closely with the
community and voluntary sector.
www.londonwaste.co.uk/community/serving-thecommunity
Lara Luna Bartley
As a materials-led artist and maker working primarily with
found materials, I forage, gather and reuse everything from
cardboard to pallets and wooden fruit boxes. I am driven by
a desire to celebrate the overlooked, for instance printing
the utilitarian symbols I collect from packaging, onto the
other materials on which they are commonly printed. My
work combines elements of design, paper engineering, fine
art and construction, and is made available through limited
editions, as well as informal interventions in the
urban environment. www.laralunabartley.com
Kuniko Maeda
Studied traditional wood carving in Kyoto and following BA and
MA degrees in textile design at Chelsea College of Arts, she is
currently studying for a MA Fine Art at Middlesex University.
Her interest in material lifecycle and sustainability resulted in
the use of recycled paper, which then became the leading
concern of studio practice. “By exploring the relationship
between Japanese philosophy and craft techniques I found a
clue in how to re-evaluate the use of materials and explore the
underestimated beauty of everyday materials and waste”.
Kuniko is a Lexus Design Award 2017 Panel Finalist and has
presented her work at the Milan Design Fair.
www.kuniko-maeda.com
Alison Harper
Alison is a textile artist who, having completed an MA at
Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University, decided
to continue her research by means of a PhD with practice,
which she is just completing. The working title for this
project was From materialism to materiality; how can my
textile art and my textile craft processes contribute to an
ethical dialogue through an emerging materiality? Her work
is concerned with the use and mis-use of resources; who
and what decides our relationships with materials and
matter? How can this relationship be altered and improved
to be less harmful both to the wider biosphere and to us as
humans?
Nathalie Gilbert
Project Manager for INCATCH, a Horizon2020 Innovation
funded development project focusing on smart rivers and
lakes (www.intcatch.eu). We are 20 partners from academic
industrial and engineering institutes from across the EU who
are developing low-cost, use-friendly automated / radio
controlled smart boats fitted with sensors for
monitoring water quality. This will enable monitoring to be
undertaken by a wide range of stakeholders, not just trained
experts. The boats will be linked to cloud-based data storage
and a decision support system that will evaluate catchment
and water quality data to help users make robust evidencebased decisions for improved catchment management. We
will also produce a range of data interpretation apps aimed
at both high level catchment managers and citizen scientists
We will also be investigating detections and mitigation
techniques for combined sewage overflows. London’s urban
rivers are one of the 4 demonstration sites (the others being
Lake Guarda in Italy, The River Ter in Spain, The River Ouse
in Cambridgeshire and Lake Yliki in Greece). Open water
trials will begin in London in September 2017.