Steel is a thing of beauty, says Barbara Rossi*, with its striking lines that don’t overwhelm the
landscape, but work with its inclines and slopes. It is also, in her eyes, deeply undervalued in terms
of its potential to transform domestic industry, and help, rather than hinder, urgent decarbonization
targets. Having recently spoken to the British parliament, submitting evidence on the irreplaceability and
recyclability of the material, Rossi is politicizing the fight for funding research, and an increased public
conscience of a material used and seen every day, but often misrepresented.
