Time: Tuesday 19 September 2023 at 19-21 Location: Dokkhuset Scene på Solsiden, Trondheim Organizer: NTNU University Museum and NTNU Sustainability Language: English Tickets: NTNU Evening is free and open to everyone
The event will be photographed and live streamed from www.ntnu.no/kveld
The consequences of climate change have become frighteningly clear to us. Nor does the earth have unlimited resources that we can use and throw away. NTNU has many researchers working to find sustainable solutions and how we can succeed in the demanding changes that are needed. This includes emission-free energy, loss of natural diversity, batteries, circular cities, plastic pollution and digital change. A new interdisciplinary research program for sustainability at NTNU has been named: Sustainable Research at NTNU (SusRes@NTNU). It spans 11 projects with 47 doctorates over 4 years. Tonight, you will meet the researchers from 1 of these 11 projects, and they work with CIRCULAR CITY.
Project leader
Pasi Aalto brings together researchers, students, industry, the public sector and other organizations to create the best possible development towards a fair, circular and sustainable 2050 society where existing buildings are a central part of the resource base and Trondheim is a test arena in the forefront. Pasi Aalto works at the Department of Architecture and Technology and is center manager for NTNU Wood.
PhD students
Nils Dittrich has a background in both philosophy and environmental engineering, which he studied in Germany and at NTNU. His research revolves around materials in the building stock – quantifying material flows at the stock level, assessing impacts of reuse for construction and developing scenarios for a more sustainable built environment. Nils is a PhD in the Industrial Ecology program at NTNU.
Georgios Triantafyllidis from Greece is doing his PhD on the development of digital twins tailored for circular cities. The challenge is to effectively capture, document and update information about existing buildings, as well as to define the necessary information framework to drive the transition to a circular economy in the urban built environment. Georgios is an architect, and he has a master's degree in design research and building information modelling.
Beatrice Stolz from France will in her PhD research promote a holistic evaluation of architectural qualities, affecting social values and supporting a circular development of neighborhoods. She completed two master’s degrees, one in architecture and the other in the science of sustainable architecture. This gives her concept an artistic approach to our built environment, combined with the necessity of developing sustainable solutions to reduce emissions.
