GROHE X Podcast – Together For Sustainability
Episode #5: Alexandra Steed and Marcella Hansch on the topic of how a resilient nature can be created for future generations
Our 5th Together For Sustainability podcast addresses the question of how we can create a resilient nature and environment for future generations while facing challenges like sea level rise and biodiversity loss.
In this episode, podcast host Marcella Hansch, CEO of everwave foundation, welcomes Alexandra Steed, expert and chartered landscape architect from Alexandra Steed URBAN/London, as guest.
Alexandra, in collaboration with her company "URBAN," is dedicated to harnessing natural processes and systems to create integrated, vibrant, and beautiful spaces. Her work offers profound insights into innovative strategic approaches for sustainable landscape architecture, aimed at harmonising and enhancing the coexistence of nature and humanity while also addressing challenges in implementation.
She particularly shares experiences, strategies, and key moves for building a more sustainable world with her project SEEPARK (South Essex Estuary Park), for which she and her team won the World Architecture Festival award.
Listen to the podcast and learn more about Alexandra's upcoming projects in the field of sustainable landscape architecture.
About the podcast
The podcast series Together For Sustainability will focus on collaborations that offer positive impacts on the problems of climate change and the exploitation of our planet. Showing that the solution lies in collective effort the range of expert guests will focus on subjects such as water, resources, circular economy, and sustainable building.
Host
Marcella Hansch
CEO, everwave foundation
An architect by training, Marcella Hansch is now CEO of the everwave foundation. While her foundation puts emphasis on environmental education, the social business everwave wants to clean rivers and protect the sea from plastic through its use of clean-up technologies. GROHE supports everwave since 2019.
Guest
Alexandra Steed
Founder & Director of Alexandra Steed URBAN Ltd
Alexandra Steed, FLI, FRSA, a passionate landscape architect, founded URBAN in 2013 to infuse daily life with joy through transformative landscape design. Her commitment to art, sustainability, and the well-being potential of landscapes shines through her work. Steed advises organisations like the Design Council UK and the UK Government's Office for Place. As a lecturer at The Bartlett, UCL, she shares her expertise and supports community empowerment and inclusive public spaces. Steed's contributions have earned her prestigious awards, including the WAFX Award for global solutions and The LI Award for Climate Change Excellence. Her designs prioritise biodiversity and natural processes, championing climate change mitigation and fostering a deep connection with the natural world.
Interested in sustainability at GROHE? Get in contact.
Melanie Vrenegor
Senior Communications Manager Sustainability
+49 211/9130 3030