Loop Lab Norway: Circular Economy for Creative Industries - Tromsø
Event description
“By disaster or design, our economic system is going to change”.
Circularity is the next frontier of sustainability. But what is it? & How do we harness it?
Cirque du Soil X TviBit presents Loop Lab Norway: Circular Economy for Creative Industries - Tromsø:
Join us in a jam packed 3 hour workshop for Tromsø Creatives and future Circular Economy leaders in artic regions, who want to move beyond just ‘sustainability’. Learn about circular economy leadership principles, how to turn your ideas into collective action on the climate crisis.
🌍 Workshop Overview
Step into a hands-on space where creativity meets climate action. In this workshop, you’ll explore how circular economy thinking can help us design smarter systems, reduce waste, and spark real change in your community.
What You’ll Learn
Circular Economy 101 – discover how linear systems drive climate impact, and how the circular economy is creating new opportunities in the creative industries.
Find Your Why – uncover the issue you care about most and what drives you to make change.
From Ideas to Action – build practical design thinking skills to redesign waste systems, develop circular value propositions to kickstart a new initiative, product, or startup, and move from concept to implementation.
Community & Collaboration – learn how to identify allies, engage stakeholders, and activate your creative network.
Overcoming Barriers – understand the common roadblocks to circular solutions and how to navigate them.
All participants also join Cirque du Soil’s global community of practice — a collective of changemakers tackling the climate crisis together.
🌟 Why Join?
This workshop is for anyone ready to become an agitator for change — whether you’re an artist, architect, filmmaker, product maker, entrepreneur, events organiser or community leader. You’ll leave with the skills, tools, and confidence to design circular solutions that matter.
Workshop Details:
When: Thursday 16th October 2025 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. Tickets are 100% subsidised by TviBit and includes a dinner in reusable takeaway containers from X
Where: TviBit, Parkgata 27, 9008 Tromsø, Norway
Please note places are limited. Registration is essential and will close at 5pm on 14th October 2025 unless booked out prior.
This workshop is supported and subsidised by the good folk at Tvibit.
Please note we may take photographs/video at our events, please communicate if you are uncomfortable with that to a TviBit staff member at the event and we will respect your wishes.
All Cirque du Soil events are as waste free as possible. Please help us achieve this by BYO: keep cup, bag, and water bottle.
TviBit is an accessible venue.
About the Workshop Facilitator:
Jean Darling is a regenerative systems leader with 20+ years of experience driving systems change across built environments, food systems, and climate action. As a trained Architect and accredited Regenerative Practitioner, she brings creative, cross-sector expertise to systems thinking and collaborative capacity building, with certifications in Circular Economy for Sustainable Built Environments from Delft University of Technology Netherlands.
Jean is Founder and Managing Director of Cirque du Soil, an Australian social enterprise working to transition cities and regions into circular, regenerative economies. She's consulted across diverse sectors—from local government to corporate, architecture to hospitality, academia to the film industry —educating communities and facilitating behavior change. Her innovative approach earned recognition as a 2024 Finalist for Melbourne's Fishermans Bend Digital Innovation Challenge.
She has spent the last 6 years scaling regenerative impact across Melbourne's urban waste with community programs such as the Community Compost Collective, which services precinct hospitality businesses, offices, events and film production sets to compost, such as Sony Pictures, Apple Productions, NBC Universal and Cirque du Soleil. Since 2019, the composting program has since diverted 112 tonnes of food waste from landfill, and prevented 235 tonnes CO2e emissions - demonstrating how community-centered regenerative solutions can simultaneously address waste, climate, and food security challenges.
Jean's expertise spans circular business model design, stakeholder engagement, and Theory of Change development, with particular focus on Circular Economy Leadership in Entrepreneurship and Youth/Adult Education. Her work demonstrates that systemic change requires both technical innovation and cultural transformation—a perspective particularly relevant to Arctic communities navigating unique environmental and social challenges. Her strategic vision extends across the APAC region, cultivating networks for cross-border circular economy collaboration, and she will share insights on Australian Circular Economy Best Practices and how hyperlocal solutions can build resilient, place-based Arctic-specific circular economies in remote regions.
Her presence is made possible through collaboration with Tvibit.
Questions? Email Ismet Bachtiar at Ismet.Bachtiar@tromso.kommune.no
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