Biography
Founding Member, Elected National Representative and Head of Media for Freegle UK (UK-wide organisation, formed in 2009 by experienced volunteers and members of the free reuse community with over 1.4 million members), Cat Fletcher is also working with Brighton University on The Waste House project.
Super scavenger Cat helped to set up the Waste Zone at Ecobuild. The Waste Zone was a temporary place dedicated to the discussion of the issues & huge potentials of seeing waste as a future resource. Students, activists, film-makers and designers of all kinds presented their ideas, showing examples of products, buildings, furniture etc – all made from waste.
Cat was shortlisted in the Living Lab Global Awards, http://llga.org/solutions.php, an international competition to find innovative solutions for unique problems from 22 cities from around the world. The awards programme was developed by an architect, originally to accelerate innovative action to address real urban problems. Her submitted solution was an online and real world system of community engagement, reward and resourcefulness (a supersonic version of what she has successfully been engaged in for six years locally and more recently with the University of Brighton). Her solution was shortlisted for two cities: Rosario in Argentina and Terrassa in Spain. She attended a 3-day summit in San Francisco in where 250 plus city leaders and solution shortlisters gathered to share knowledge and establish relationships.
Plenary Panel Presentation | Sustaining the City
