Circular Design for Climate Mobilization (CDCMo) Presents: Building Community for Climate Resilience
Come celebrate Climate Week NYC and learn from visionary organizations building place-based businesses, skills, and resilience for a low-carbon future.
Join us for an evening of conversation and connection on how circular design can transform New York City’s future. Hear from organizations implementing circular design principles to strengthen their capacity and to adapt cities to recover from climate impacts.
At 6:15, short presentations will start, with networking until 7:30.
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Silvana Catazine and Josean Vilar founded Naifactory Lab to research biomaterials for their own design projects and to reduce waste from events. With a focus on olive pits, they create biodegradable furniture, toys, art pieces, and decorative objects, as well as lighting, signage, POS, visual merchandising, and window displays. Their panot de flor tile (a distinctive, flower-shaped tile that has become a symbol of Barcelona, Spain) has become a local souvenir representing Barcelona's innovation and sustainability.
Wei Wang is a Design Manager at Gensler New York, a global architecture, design, and planning firm. She views the architect’s responsibility as extending beyond design and functionality, embracing the ability to shift practice from a traditional linear approach to a circular, regenerative model. With a strong interest in building materials and research, she is actively involved in sustainability efforts and circularity research, co-chairs the AIANY COTE Materials Health and Circularity Subcommittee, and serves as a visiting critic at GSAPP and Parsons.
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MADE Bush Terminal, managed by NYCEDC, is an ambitious urban redevelopment project in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, transforming a historic 36-acre waterfront property into a modern, mixed-use hub for local producers, fabricators, and creatives. The project's core mission is to foster economic growth through local job creation, community engagement, and sustainable development while preserving the area's rich industrial heritage.