Conference ISIE 2013 at the University of Ulsan, Korea
The 7th International Society for Industrial Ecology Biennal Conference (ISIE 2013) was held from 25th to 28th June at the University of Ulsan, Korea. On this occasion, the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) presented the first results of the research project entitled "Symbiotic Districts" and developed in collaboration with the Industrial Ecology Group of the Institute of Land Use Policies and Human Environment (IPTEH) of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) within the framework of the Collaborative Research on Science and Society Program (CROSS).
The International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) is an interdisciplinary forum of natural and social scientists, engineers, policymakers and practitioners that develop innovative systems, analysis methods, tools and solutions in pursuit of sustainable technologies, products and services. In that perspective, ISIE promotes the use of industrial ecology in research, education, industrial practices, policy, and community development in order to transform society and achieve a more sustainable economy.
The conference theme of ISIE 2013 was "Industrial Ecology : Strategy for Green Economy", which represents a vision to decouple economic development from environmental impacts, and to promote value creation by reducing resource impacts. Synergy between economic and environmental objectives is recognized as an important policy goal by both industrialized and industrializing nations.
In the session dedicated to the urban infrastructure and low carbon development, Sophie Lufkin, Post Doc at LAST, presented the Symbiotic Districts research project, which aims to transpose the use of industrial ecology tools to the urban environment, in order to develop a new design and calculation methodology for creating symbiotic neighborhoods in the urban context in Switzerland.
Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey, Suren Erkman, SYMBIOTIC DISTRICTS - Innovative design strategies for local energy and resource self-reliance at the district scale by integrating issues related to buildings, infrastructures, mobility and food.