The November CX focuses on design and the circular economy.

What are design value drivers in the current global environment? How do we keep products that have a high impact on the environment in circulation for as long as possible? What are circular business models?

Attendance is free, but please register for the event by clicking the "Register" button above 

Hear from a local trio of waste and circular economy specialists:

• Sally-Anne Kasner – Former head of the Sustainability Division of the Cape Town Branch of JG Afrika and current Director of Circular-Vision
• Kirsten Barnes – Greencape’s Waste Economy Analyst
• Susanne Karcher – Chair of the Southern African e-Waste Alliance and owner of EnviroSense CC, a local Environmental Management Consultancy.
  

Join us as we tap into these thought leaders and make the most of this great networking opportunity. We look forward to seeing you there!

More about the CX:

The CDI’s Creative Exchange (CX), now being hosted in partnership with Workshop17, is one of Cape Town’s most popular monthly creative industry events and has been running for many years, even preceding World Design Capital. It is aimed at connecting creatives and promotes the design sector, offering access to information on what’s new, interesting and transformative. Each month it attracts around 100 people from across the sector, from architects to fashion designers, policy makers to photographers, manufacturers, producers and innovators to listen, engage, share and exchange ideas. 

More about our speakers:

Kirsten Barnes

Kirsten is a Waste Economy Analyst at GreenCape, which is an NPO established to facilitate economic growth and job creation in the green economy. Her focus is currently construction and demolition, working with pavement engineers, crushing, demolition and construction companies, industry bodies as well as government to facilitate the growth of the economy in secondary materials from construction and demolition waste. Kirsten is passionate about strategic engagement and action to support a flourishing resource (waste) economy in South Africa.

Background: PhD in Environmental Science and Chemistry (UKZN) - “The fate of solutes and processes of solute retention in the uMkhuze Wetland System, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa”

Sally-Anne Kasner

Sally is constantly trying to find new ways to change our current linear economy model to be a more Cyclical or Circular. Materials management and product design is key to this. Her focus and passion lies within materials management. 

She has been a consultant since the end of 2003 and her current assignments involve a myriad of projects including, Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production Studies, Environmental Auditing, waste characterisations, development and implementation of Environmental Management Systems and the development of Operational Materials Management Plans. 

She has just joined Circular-Vision and previously managed the Sustainability Division of the Cape Town Branch of JG Afrika. She is currently the Operations Manager for the EcoStandard, a Non-Profit Organisation to provide Eco-Labelling assurance certifications for materials and products. She has also recently qualified as an Edge expert. 

Specialties: Resource optimisation and materials management; Waste Minimisation & Cleaner Production studies 

Susanne Karcher

After completing Chemical Engineering studies in Germany Susanne Karcher started her company EnviroSense CC (an Environmental Consultancy) in Cape Town in 1999.  Her company specialises in the planning, development and facilitation of tailor-made governmental, industrial/commercial and residential “Integrated Resource and Waste Management” programmes. This includes the identification of resource consumption baselines following a triple bottom line evaluation of all relevant social, economic and natural system impacts for the formulation of individual solutions towards waste minimisation and pollution prevention.

An improved environmental performance, financial savings, job creation from waste opportunities and better overall operational efficiency are achieved through lateral system based thinking which is inspired by Circular Economy principles and designs and delivered through systematic RECP application.

Circular Economy related work appointments are (next to ACEN and her involvement as Mentor of the Circular Economy Club) with the World Resources Forum concerning the recent development of ISO IWWA “Guidance Principles for the Sustainable Management of Secondary Metals”.   

Susanne is also the Chair of the Southern African e-Waste Alliance since 2010 and in this capacity she is part of the ERA Steerco who has developed the WEEE IndWM Plan which is now due to go into consultation phase. She is also appointed to develop the take-back strategy plan for South Africa’s lighting industry sector.

As a Provincial member of Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) and in collaboration with her ACEN co-founder colleague Sally Ann-Kasner, Susanne developed a “Circular Economy” inspired seminar under the name “Beyond Waste” which was successfully held earlier this year.