is recite the future of architecture welcome to arts and culture well we'll be asking that question and also coming up. versus substance redefining the parisian woman beyond cliches about how the lips and fancy scarves. and transforming a nasty old mattress into a belgian waffle or maybe. taco trash fast food sculptures by artiste. but 1st the friday's for future youth movement against climate change has inspired people around the globe including architects here in germany a group called architects for future is pushing to reform construction for instance

by renovating buildings instead of demolishing them the goal is to help stop. 50 percent to 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in germany and 60 percent of all the waste can be attributed to the building industry and that's a big motivation for us. to him to stay under the highland company entirely from architects for future say construction needs to be more climate friendly to do this they say we need more refurbishing and less demolition. and we need to use a lot more of what's already there no matter how efficiently and sustainably a new building is constructed in terms of c o 2 using what's already there is much better. buildings use a lot of what's called embodied energy the sum of all the energy needed for construction when they're torn down that energy is wasted yet buildings are still being your market for demolition like munich's arabella high rise just 50 years old and the city's main train station its claim that refurbishing is more expensive

than rebuilding but that doesn't factor in the cost of embodied energy. there is another way for its new office space the n.-g. o. cradle to cradle in berlin shows to refurbish with recyclable materials. but the electric eye the electric wiring is a good example normally we don't see the wiring because it's built into the structure of the building so it's difficult to replace here we have a surface mounted electrical system inside aluminum piping to create we have a cradle to cradle circuit system you can take apart it's recyclable and materially sound so it's easy to dismantle. from. cradle to cradle is. all about recycling management it's the only way to improve the climate balance of the construction industry but the principle is not a new one but our throwaway society means it is something of a revolution of. architects

for a future there so what is the future for architects my colleague melissa holroyd is here with me now mostly i can't help but think when we talk about the future and architecture i have all these images in my mind of you know plexiglas bubbles floating somewhere in space and ask a waiter's to nowhere and building robots that is absolutely not what these people are talking about i don't need a little yeah i have these these ideas as well but architects to feature they're all about recycling and i also want to see us move away from building materials such as concrete and towards timber so they're doing yeah there are plenty of advantages with using timba it can be as strong as steel it's lights if it's very it's if you can put up buildings in no time when you use it. everything is recyclable even the sawdust can be recycled is a very very long list of advantages and worst case scenario when the building is demolished you can also you can always burn it as few really rich is going to say

we don't burn down but i guess that could be an advantage of her here we're looking at a model housing estate from munich this is 570 apartments all made from who would. buy a car in that event however there are now another trend that's picking up speed is green spaces in buildings so when we talk about green spaces we're talking about grass so plants old trees on the facade inside of buildings as part of the permanent aka texture after months of being looked indoors people people's relationship with the environment has become a lot stronger now a lot of ways it's become a lot more important to different people as far as green spaces go outside of buildings there are plenty of changes there too because we're spending more time outside the. of corona and p. right eating more outside in this socializing a lot more outside greens and so good for mental health 0 of the green totally yet it's supposed to also help with depression it helps with bio diversity and yeah

it's good for the environment it's just really think critically we're talking about architecture responding to climate change what about social movements we're seeing a black wives matter me to is their response to those in architecture now yeah from what i've looked at there is that there are going to be sort of different shifts that are going to happen in the current narratives that we're going to see in architecture so we're going to see will female perspectives will create perspectives more black perspectives in architecture and i'm excited to see how this actually translated translates and what actually comes out of it right we're going to be moving away from the white man's building and seeing what else there could be out there her yeah you know as a horrid thanks so much for coming in syria thank you. so how to make use of what's already there well artist creates her art out of trash she finds on the streets of paris transforming the disgusting into something that's. almost appetizing. overside sculptures looking good enough to eat the sidewalk

pursers by over the. studied art on university in paris and developed an interest in waste products of all kinds consumerist and throwaway society is the central theme of our works true she was transformed into a piece of cake. these objects attract people's attention because they look advertising and at the same time they're familiar all at once and old mattress that people once found disgusting or just overlooked becomes interesting and that's what fascinates me that people will look at something they didn't originally want to. translate into objects of art pop up all over the city. couldn't imagine making them for an art gallery. the bacterial i can set out on my own and create really big objects with just my bare hands and

a tool bag. of almost candlestick that this is even possible on the street it wouldn't have any meaning for me in the room the contact with people just isn't the same so. my search for junk mainly took me into the multicultural no strength to strength people don't have such ready access to the. more your. computer smokers work standard public spaces they can be classed as public property as such they can be taken away by the trash pickup at any time. coming up trash doesn't exactly fit the stereotypes of parisian women actually the image of the parisian woman as slim elegant smoking and drinking wine in cafes hasn't really changed much since please it brother and conquered the silver screen back in the 1950 s. but what makes a real. and her new book

a paris based writer takes aim at what she sees as a harmful or exclusionary myths this report from sonia found a car in the french capital. paris the city of light feeble for its beauty and its flawless inhabitants the slim stylish and seductive body c.n.n. or the parisian woman often seen in commercials to sell clothes both fumes and beauty products. it's a studio type the more divvy knows will the fashion design no worked for karl lagerfeld for nearly 2 decades before launching his own label he says the luxury industry relies heavily on the image of the body see in the fight by a long list of style icon that is in essence with sucked in hair invisible makeup and seemingly effortless shit it's a look at type that's remained unchanged over the decades. and represented as a pin white woman. who blends elegance and freedom we don't want

to because we thought we wanted it. to have it. but the myth is being questioned with critics saying it creates an unattainable ideal one that excludes the majority of french with. american writer and journalist moved to paris nearly 15 years ago she soon grew tired of the studio types of the body and repeated in films and advertising campaigns. her latest book the new was released sided with debates about rachel justice and french identity portrays a diverse set of women living and working in perilous greater equality in sport because that's another area where france has a long way to go the book features activists writers artists designers entrepreneurs a female rabbi even a boxing champion some from immigrant backgrounds others from the suburbs some from

other countries who have made paris the home what i need is to show a plurality of faces and voices that reflect who actually lives here and that was my goal because these are women who are you know because of what they go through and because of their unique experience of the city they are you know motivated to contribute to the city in different ways and try to make it better for those of us who live here but also those who visit the 19th hole in the small in northern paris it's one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods. it's a little quiet and empty racism activists grew up and still lives she's one of the most prominent women featured in the book and is well known here she's one of the few black journalists and commentators on television speaking out on hot button issues of police violence and systemic racism. has long rejected studio types of the party saying the representation of both women and minorities in french society

remains problematic so i have been kind of struggling for very long time to make myself i don't see 5 as a frenchman and as a parisian and i think that all the cliches that are perpetrated by the media by also the advertising. really raises it raises women who look like me so women of color but also women who are disabled who are educated hue who are not slim hornets'. the elusive. perhaps the enduring myth and its dominance of the city's image is finally beginning to lose a cheap. now before we go i want to leave you with what may be the strangest culture story of the week in italy a 200 year old statue of napoleon's sister needs an extreme pedicure after an austrian tourist sat on her the man was apparently so enticed by a historic plaster copy of this marvelous to culture that he decided to recline

with her for a photo after her toes snapped off security footage at the museum shows the man seemingly realizing what he's done to artist until in the novas work then making a getaway. but the story doesn't end there because of the coronavirus museum guests in italy now have to register their contact details so all police had to do was call the man up the toast napper made a teary confession and has promised to cover the damage that's all for arts and culture this time but do find us on facebook and twitter at g.w. culture bye bye for now. the. fake hair and real story. where i come from a lot of women like me have fake a sometimes a hairstyle takes up to 2 days it's

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