The Pedagogies of Re-Use: The International School of Re-Construction

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Duncan Baker-Brown is a practicing architect academic and environmental activist. Author of The Re-Use Atlas: A Designers Guide Towards a Circular Economy he has practised researched and taught around issues of sustainable development and closed-looped systems for more than 25 years. He recently founded BakerBrown a research-led architectural practice and consultancy created to address the huge demands presented by the climate and ecological emergency as well as the challenges of designing in a post-COVID world. Over the years Duncans practices (and academic live projects) have won numerous accolades including RIBA National Awards and a special award from The Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Brighton Waste House the prize money has since been used to set up a student prize for circular closed-loop design at the University of Brighton UK where Duncan teaches.Duncan was the University of Brightons principal investigator for the North West Europe's Interreg Facilitating the Circulation of Reclaimed Building Elements (FCRBE) project. He was responsible for curating the pedagogic outputs for the FCRBE team (lead by Rotor). Said outputs are the subject of this book which he has co-edited with the wonderful Prof. Graeme Brooker.Graeme Brooker is Professor and Head of Interiors at The Royal College of Art London UK. He has published numerous books on many aspects of the interior including the recent publications 50|50 Words for Reuse (2022) Brinkworth: So Good So Far (2019) Adaptations (2016) and Key Interiors Since 1900 (2013). He has co-authored/edited ten books on the interior including the highly acclaimed Rereadings (2005; Volume 2 2018). He has led interior programmes in Cardiff Manchester Brighton and London institutions and has been a visiting professor in Antwerp Berlin Istanbul and Milan. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture INNER IDEA and DESIGN&. He is the founder and was the director of the charity Interior Educators (IE) the national subject association for all interior courses in the UK between 20062018 and 2023present. He is a trustee of United In Design (UID) a charity set up to address the lack of diversity in the profession of interiors. He is currently working on the funded project ATLAS an archival-based work with the European Council of Interior Architects (ECIA) and the books The SuperReuse Manifesto (2024) and The Story of the Interior (2025). The latter is a history book that moves beyond standard chronological accounts and instead retells thematic histories of inside spaces through narratives of the room and the private and public interior.