Samenvatting

8 Strategies for Circular Design envisions buildings as the crucible of a circular economy, where their construction,
deconstruction, and maintenance are the staging grounds for a future without waste. Rethinking our building strategies
redefines a building’s value, which is the worth of all the spaces, materials, and components to people who
own, maintain, inhabit, or will inhabit a building. The act of claiming new agency requires as much imagination
as it does intention and intonation. In each of the crisply drawn, time-eliding scenarios in this booklet, is an
implicit provocation: What do we imagine for ourselves and our profession when we strive toward a circular economy?
If we are to be circular economists what new knowledge,
new relationships, new competencies, and new outcomes
do we desire and why? In a circular economy might we,
in addition to our strategies, claim also what we want to
become?
All presented work is made by architcture students at Cornell University and the University of the Arts Amsterdam.