Plenary Session Becoming Circular

Concluding the Becoming Circular track and the Congress’s first day, this plenary expands circularity beyond recycling, framing it as a design ethos spanning material stocks, spatial organization, and energy.

It considers the city as an active repository of resources, explores reversible construction and low waste assemblies, and asks how architecture can align with planetary thermodynamic flows. The discussion situates circularity within post extractivist practice, regenerative, frugal, and accountable.