Design Miami/Basel explores the anthropocene with Elements: Earth exhibition
Curator Aric Chen has explored how we will use materials in a new geological age, in the headline exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel.
Elements: Earth was a group exhibition featuring nine projects relating to the anthropocene ? a proposed new age in which humans are the dominant force impacting the earth's geology.
On show at the entrance to the fair, which took place last week in Basel, the show aimed to highlight the "growing inescapability of our impact on the planet".
Moss Tower by Kim Simonsson are ceramic pieces in an industrial setting
Projects on show ranged from Erez Nevi Pana's Bleached furniture encrusted with Dead Sea salt to Formafantasma's Ore Streams research project that looks as the recycling of electronic waste. Together the stands aimed to "make tangible the blurring distinctions between artificial and natural, raw materials and waste, and consumption and production".
The nine projects were all selected by Aric Chen, the Shanghai-based architecture and design curator who last year was announced as the first curatorial director of Design Miami/Basel. The design fair is now in its 14th year.
Shahar Livne's Metamorphism seeks to mimic the earth's geological processes
"The way I see it, the anthropocene is not a topic ? it's perhaps the singular, overriding condition that we now inhabit," said Chen.
"Design has always been about how we articulate, and interact with, the constructed world ? and we can now safely s...
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