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Assemble! Podcast 2: XO Policy - Extraction Zero Policy

Listen to the second episode of the Assemble! Podcast. On XO Policy – Extraction Zero Policy, drafted by architect and Dark Matter Labs co-founder, Indy Johar together with & Ivana Stancic

October 29, 2025

In this second episode on the policy proposal XO Policy – Extraction Zero Policy, drafted by architect and Dark Matter Labs co-founder, Indy Johar together with & Ivana Stancic, we sit down with Indy alongside architect and both Innovation Director and director and initiator of The Planetary Project at Sweco Karl-Martin Buch Frederiksen as well as director of the Regenerative Built Environment Network at BLOXHUB Jacob Rask to discuss Dark Matter Lab’s policy which  bans construction processes that are extractive to the point of endangering human and ecological systems.

Read the law proposal at this link.

This podcast was produced by KoozArch in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Biennial.

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