ASBN SustainabiliTEA #28 // BE Circular Economy 101

Please join us for another ASBN SustainabiliTEA - a time to enjoy some tea (or morning beverage of your choice) whilst having a yarn about a diversity of topics around sustainable and regenerative built environments.

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Vanessa Cullen, from FTD Circular by Forward Thinking Design, will join our SustainabiliTEA series to familiarise the ASBN community with the history, definition and future of circular economy in Australia and globally. Vanessa will also highlight opportunities and practical applications in advancing circular economy adoption within the Australian built environment industry.

We look forward to hearing Vanessa's insights, whilst sharing space with you all virtually over a soothing cuppa.

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About the Speakers

Vanessa Cullen

Vanessa is the CEO of Forward Thinking Design, a Social Traders Certified social enterprise, which she founded. Forward Thinking Design is a built environment strategy and design studio, specialising in circular economy and social impact, that retains its profits to finance pro bono and reduced-fee services to charity and social enterprise projects. Vanessa is a renowned expert in sustainable and responsible design, building as a material bank and digital traceability for waste eradication and circularity. Vanessa exhibits extensive experience in built environment circular economy practice, knowledge-leadership, stakeholder engagement, co-design and training.

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Event Stream Sponsorship 

This event is part of ASBN's Circular Economy event stream for 2025. Our Circular Economy event stream is sponsored by Green Industries South Australia, who supports the development of a Circular Economy in the Built Environment nucleus and recognises the importance of events which foster local knowledge share, collaboration and networking opportunities. 

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Acknowledgement of Country

Adelaide Sustainable Building Network acknowledges the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Tarntanya, where our work is most often undertaken. We also acknowledge the Peramangk People of the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Ngarrindjeri of Fleurieu, Coorong and lower Murray regions and the Ngadjuri of the Barossa and Mid-North as the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality recognises the connectedness of people and culture with earth, sky and water country. The land is alive with traces of Dreaming ancestors. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land