Waste Age
What can design do?
Published on 23. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-872005-54-6 (ISBN)
Description
We are living in the age of waste. Design has helped create our throwaway culture - can design help us leave it behind?
A new generation of designers is rethinking our relationship to everyday things. From fashion to packaging, electronics to construction, finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of organic materials could point the way out of the waste age.
This book showcases some of the visionary designers who are reinventing our relationship with waste, including Formafantasma, Stella McCartney, Lacaton & Vassal, Atelier Luma, Rotor, Fernando Laposse, Bethany Williams, Phoebe English and Natsai Audrey Chieza.
A new generation of designers is rethinking our relationship to everyday things. From fashion to packaging, electronics to construction, finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of organic materials could point the way out of the waste age.
This book showcases some of the visionary designers who are reinventing our relationship with waste, including Formafantasma, Stella McCartney, Lacaton & Vassal, Atelier Luma, Rotor, Fernando Laposse, Bethany Williams, Phoebe English and Natsai Audrey Chieza.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
200 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 151 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-872005-54-6 (9781872005546)
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Persons
Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum. He has been the design critic of the Guardian, the editor of Icon magazine and the Head of Design Curating and Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He is the author of Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (2014), and co-editor of Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World (2016), California: Designing Freedom (2017) and Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow (2018).