Building is a series of interviews with diverse thinkers and doers from the worlds of research, design, insurance, engineering and farming. Each in turn discusses how their work intersects with climate and building. Five full interviews will be published weekly, from next week, however we kick off this week with a ClimateRelay - a short excerpt from each of five interviews running back-to-back. In so doing, ClimateRelay is designed to demonstrate that climate issues cannot be discussed in silos. The impacts of climate change are intrinsically cross-disciplinary, requiring us to think in complex, non-linear ways.

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The ClimateRelay participants are, in order of appearance,

00:00 “The road to Paris is steep. Very steep.” Dan Hill, Designer, Urbanist & Educator, Melbourne School of Design

13:15 “Hemp to the rescue.” Doug Rennie, Farmer

27:00 “Buildings as habitat.” Joost Bakker, Zero-waste innovator

39:45 “Climates and the housing insurance crisis.” Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Queensland.

51:30 “Rethinking and reusing big buildings.” Sam Pear, Sustainability Engineer, Hassell Studios

The series of interviews was presented on 24 May 2025 at the Regenerative Futures Studio, Woodleigh School as part of Melbourne Design Week 2025.

We thank the ClimateRelay panellists, and Woodleigh School for their part in the ClimateRelay Building program and look forward to sharing their insights later in the series:

Janis Fischer, Landscape Architect, Tract Consultants & Nature Based Cities Advisory Councillor

Frank Burridge, Architect, Main& Frank

Dan Hill, Designer, Urbanist & Educator, Melbourne School of Design

Special thanks also to

Ewan McEoin, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Design and Architecture, National Gallery of Victoria

David Baker, Principal, and the staff of Woodleigh School

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We acknowledge that we work and create on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung and Boon Wurrung People and we pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. Always was. Always will be.

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