Fellow's Profile
Robert Bishop
Fellow's Profile
Robert Bishop
Working Title: Just Enough
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Learning from embargoed design cultures to make circular economy decisions inevitable, not optional.
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Locality
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London
Contact
Biography
I am an architect and a transformation leader. My experience ranges from working with refugee-led projects at Freedom from Torture to workplace change projects at the Cabinet Office and circular economy projects for local government. My Fellowship looks to challenge our existing cultural approach to the circular economy in design projects. Currently in the UK we create a brief and design 'new' buildings or interiors to that brief. We have no reflex to try to adapt the brief to the existing building or fitout. Our clients and sponsors put their own pride before the needs of the planet.
Two cultures have significant experience of approaching design with circularity as a priority: Cuba and Japan. Their design cultures are imbued with a response to either embargo or isolation, so that through necessity or long evolved patterns of thinking they make circular economy decisions inevitable and not optional.
I am looking to learn from these cultures and design a programme of feasibility studies which change our current cultural reflex from inception of the project. I aim to take this programme into the heart of the civil service and the corporate world.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
