piper: decoding healthy & regenerative design

Piper explores the diverse stories of the designers, architects, builders, brands and wellness experts working to make the built environment healthier and more sustainable for people and planet. Each episode aims to decode the complexities of healthy and regenerative design to make it more accessible to designers of all backgrounds.

piper: decoding healthy & regenerative design is a arts podcast hosted by Piper Republic, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Piper Republic hosts piper: decoding healthy & regenerative design, a arts show with 40 episodes published.

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  Episode #40

  Taking Circularity 180 Degrees

  Aug 6, 202628 minS3

  Making reuse and circularity repeatable, scalable and efficient is not without its challenges. Especially in an economic model and an industry like the built environment, that was set up to move linearly. But after seeing how much waste construction produced, the team at the design-build firm 180 Degrees was motivated to do something about it. Where there were barriers, they saw opportunities––opportunities to expand their services, skill set, and creativity. Over the past 25 years, after adding building services to their architecture firm, they've steadily taken on more challenging reuse projects. Along that journey, they also added an in-house fabrication team, The Guild, which up-leveled their ability to reimagine materials. In this episode, James Trahan, AIA, a partner and principal at 180 Degrees , talks about some of the challenges of reuse in the built environment and how mindset (and storage) play a big part in overcoming them.

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  Episode #39

  Raising bale: Building a straw think tank

  Jul 17, 202631 minS3

  Thirty years ago, out on the Carrizo Plain just east of San Luis Obispo in central California, 30 or so natural-building enthusiasts met at a deserted motel to explore the formation of a California natural building group. This initial gathering was a byproduct of the Natural Building Colloquium-Southwest, a touch of serendipity, and a few too many in-flight cocktails shared between three California builders. It was 1995. Turko Semmes and Greg McMillan, builders from the San Luis Obispo area, had just wrapped up an inspiring week at the colloquium held in the small town of Kingston, New Mexico. They felt like they had found their tribe––people from all corners of the world interested in straw, earth and bamboo building materials, alternative energy technology and natural building systems. How could they share this with people in California, they wondered? This is the story of the start of the California Straw Building Association (CASBA), how they sparked a statewide straw bale building movement, impacted natural building at the national level, and built a support network along the way. Now, the founding members are passing the torch to the next generation to uphold the values of the straw bale community while also addressing the needs of today.

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  Episode #37

  How story can preserve and erode architecture with Michael Paul

  Jun 9, 202638 minS3

  <p >Let's travel back to the late 1800s to Tombstone, Arizona––a boomtown where gunslinging, gambling, saloon brawls and shootouts like the Gunfight at the OK Corral were the norm. Where outlaws, vigilantes and "lawmen" like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday wrote the rules of frontier justice. It was where vice and violence met. It was the Wild West. At least that's what the Hollywood myth-making machine and opportunistic local entrepreneurs would have you believe. And at the heart of all of this legend and lore sits the Bird Cage Theater. Built in 1881, this unassuming building has endured a lot in i...

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  Episode #36

  Connecting bio-based materials: Inside the BBMCConnecting bio-based materials: Inside the BBMC

  May 30, 202642 minS3

  <p >On a November morning in 2023, more than 60 individuals across the bio-based construction value chain descended upon the MASS Design Group office in Boston to address one question: How can we begin to rapidly scale regionally produced, renewable building materials across the Northeast?</p> <p >This intrepid group, which included designers, developers, builders, farmers, foresters, educators, suppliers, manufacturers, engineers, and policy makers, formed what is now known as the Bio-Based Materials Collective (BBMC). And in less than two years since that November convening, the focus and size of the Collective have broadened dramatically. No longer focused on just the Northeastern...

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  Episode #35

  Rewilding Through the Art of Storytelling with Joel Caldwell

  May 19, 202644 minS3

  <p >Writer, photographer, filmmaker, grassroots organizer…Joel Caldwell dons many titles, but at the heart of it, he is a storyteller––and a powerful one at that. </p> <p >An avid outdoors person, Joel grew up in rural Washington, worked on a dude ranch in Montana for a bit, then moved to Colorado, where, as he puts it: was a backcountry-skiing, motorcycle-riding, mountain bike guy in full send. </p> <p >Eventually, Joel found his way into documenting environmental stories from all around the world. But years of covering environmental destruction started to weigh on him. Around that same time, following a trip t...

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