Hopecast is a series of five hopeful summer podcasts on how architecture can contribute to social change. In each episode, de Architect editor-in-chief Merel Pit and Nature of Hope curator Catherine Koekoek will speak with a guest from the design world about how their work fosters hopeful change and about the challenges and opportunities they encounter along the way. The Hopecast podcast series is a production of de Architect in collaboration with the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
All of the guests blend a social and societal perspective with a practical emphasis on sustainability and materiality in their work. The talks are inspired by the meetings that take place at the Practice Place during the IABR 2024 exhibition with the goal of building alliances for the transformation of the practice of architecture.
#2 – Are We Nature? with Lian Blok https://open.spotify.com/episode/5eGt6oxY36UtyA8F5ZuMP8
Lian Blok advocates the integration of nature into the portfolio of the Central Government Real Estate Agency. As an architect with the Board of Government Advisors, she and her team have developed a scheme that dedicates 20 percent of a project’s land area to nature. This is quite a challenge, given the slow pace of government processes. However, as she explains in the second episode of the five-part Hopecast podcast series, a production of de Architect in association with the IABR, many in the organization share her ambition.
