{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Zero Ambitions Podcast","title":"Retrofit as a movement for social change (there's more to it all than fabric and finance), with Dan Hill (Dark Matter Labs)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4389,"description":"This week we're thinking about retrofit differently with Dan Hill from Dark Matter Labs (DML). Or rather, we're talking about retrofit's potential to become a movement for social change.\nIn reality, retrofit is about much more than fabric and economics, it's about people and how they live. With that in mind we should be thinking much more about engagement. This is itself a massive challenge because thinking about people properly, as the users of a building, requires a massive shift in how retrofit practice is organised and enacted.\nDan has 25 years of experience from working in housing and planning in senior roles at housing associations, Newham Council, CICs, and in a bunch of other consultative roles.\nWe really enjoy talking about these subjects with him because he has gifted us different ways to thinking about the sector, even when we're talking through familiar territory. So, listen up, eh? \nUpdated notes from the show\nDark Matter Labs' published work on Retrofit\nDML on 'Community Powered Retrofit'\nRetrofit Reimagined Festival 2022 videos of sessions\nRetrofit Reimagined Festival 2023 website\nRetrofit Reimagined Festival 2023 videos of sessions\nReport on Feasibility for a Regional Retrofit Impact Fund, with a focus on Outcomes based financing with West Midlands Combined Authority and Partners\nCommon Wealth report The Case for Community Energy Democracy\nReport on the embodied carbon of retrofit materials versus operational carbon\nA report on the concept of Embodied biodiversity from Expedition Engineering\nThe reference about the 40% figure (fig 1.7) and the maritime trade in fossil fuels\n\nNotes from the show\nDan Hill on LinkedIn\nThe Dark Matter Labs website\nThe 'People-First Retrofit' panel about the Energiesprong Comfort Plan research we did, held at Futurebuild 2024\nThat story about the Tory Minister who thinks swimming in sewage is good actually\nThe Catalogue of Good Practices a hybrid green finance catalogue for the reconstruction of Ukraine\nThe National...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/imp-PGTK0p-Yir06lCKyRzcHa9UWxL7NtYiXEdkSiXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2NDY5LzE2OTYy/ODc4ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}