Project Leadership

Hanif Kara

Principal Investigator, Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology

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Leire Asensio-Villoria

Co-Investigator, Lecturer in Architecture and Landscape Architecture

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Andreas Georgoulias

Co-Investigator, Lecturer in Architecture and Senior Research Associate

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Seminar

The students that participated in the Seminar “The Architecture of Waste” developed in 2015 were:

Larissa Belcic, MLA I

Elizabeth Biney-Amissah, MC/MPA

Lee Ann Bobrowski, MLA I

Clementine Jang, MLA I

Ivan Ruhle, MArch I

Mariana Llano, MDes

Benjamin Peek, MDes

Chris Meyer, MArch II

Nancy Nichols, MArch I

Joshua Feldman, MArch I

Alberto Embriz de Salvatierra, MLA/AP/MDES

Jeniffer Hiser, MIT

Larisa Ovalles, MIT

Hyeyun Jung, MArch I

Ivy Pan, MLA I

Studio

The students that participated in the Studio “(Re)Planned Obsolescence. ReThinking the Architecture of Waste” in the Spring of 2016 were:

Nastaran Arfaei,

Michael Clapp, MArch 11

Alberto Embriz de Salvatierra, MLA/AP/MDES

Michael Haggerty, MArch I

David Hamm, MArch I

Taehyun Jeon, MArch II

Michael Johnson, MArch I

Andrew Wade Keating, MArch I

Jana Masset, MArch II

Dana McKinney, MArch I/MUP

Felipe Oropeza Jr., MArch I

Scott March Smith, MArch I

Snoweria Zhang, MArch I

Acknowledgements

The Waste-to-Energy Design Lab would not have been possible without many activities and multiple collaborations, especially the support of Mohsen Mostafavi, Patricia Roberts, Iñaki Ábalos, and Anne Matthews at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Also at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Publications, Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Sigler, and writer and editor Krista Sykes provided helpful comments and advice to develop the project’s publication. ACTAR director Ramon Prat created the elegant layout templates. Anita Kan photographed the work of the WtE Design Lab seminar and options studio, and related events.

Interactions with architects Iñaki Ábalos, Peter Rowe, Jean Mazaud, and Bjarke Ingels provided extremely useful input.

The Sven Tyréns Trust provided funding for the overall Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Design Lab project. We particularly thank Chief Executive Officer Ulrika Franke and Executive Vice President Birgitta Olofsson of Tyréns, and their representatives Elisabet Hoglund, Anna Sjostrom, Karl Graah-Hagelbäck, Håkan Rosqvist, and Christer Andersson for providing background material and reviewing our research, proposals, and designs. We also thank the plant managers, planners, operators, and designers at the numerous WtE facilities we visited across Europe and in the United States, including John Vinson, Barbara Vars-Breton, Monica Jackson, Niklas Svensson, Johan Alsparr, Tomas Nilsson, Tomas Hago, Niclas Åkerlund, Jan Andhagen, Jesper Baaring, Per Kind, and Claus Hermansen.

We also thank the following individuals for their contributions:

Anders Agebro, Mounir Ainholm, Tomas Alsmarker, Jesper Baaring, Larry Barth, Martin Bechthold, Jennifer Bonner, Eric Carlsson, Salvardor Cejudo Ramos, Salmaan Craig, Petter, Eklund, Ulrica Ericsson, Andreas Eriksson, Sofi Erselius, Stellan Fryxell, Camilo Galletti, Max Goldstein, James Grant, Terence Hales, Ari Halinoja, Malin Harders, Patrick Heddini, Cristoffer Högberg, Andrew Holder, Bjarni Ingvason, El Hadi Jazairy, Anton Johansson, Britt-Marie Josefsson, Mårten Juvander, Iro Kalogeropoulou, Bettina Kamuk, Pernilla Knutsson, Dorthe Lærke, Grace La, Fredrik Lange, Elerin Laud, Chris Lee, Mårten Leringe, Hans Linnman, David Mah, Aleksandra Masalska-Skwira, Marcus Mattson, Matan Mayer, Fredrik Moberg, Kiel Moe, Anders Ohlin, Richard Pålsson, Tom Phelps, Nina Rappaport, Nathalie Rasti, Åsa Rodin, Therese Rowland, Petra Sörme, Jakob Sahlén, Jennita Schaaphot, Alexander Ståhl, Frida Stockhaus, Lovisa Strandlund, Geert Stryg, Belinda Tato, Jeremy Thompson, Lena Tomani, Fanny Wahlqvist, Lotta Werner, Tina Wik, and Maja Zachrisson.