Sir Norman Foster and his foundation in Madrid invited me for an intriguing week of conversations, alongside a few fellow sustainability enthusiasts and eight brilliant architecture students.   The outcome was not too shabby: plenty of good food, lots of laughter, and some genuinely cool insights. The takeaways from this workshop, along with several others, were thoughtfully captured by the diligent staff of the Norman Foster Foundation in this wonderful volume .   My contribution was:...

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