For this year's Dutch Invertuals exhibition during Milan design week, 10 designers offered a glimpse into how the human race will tackle future global issues.
The Dutch Invertuals Harvest exhibition was on show in the Isola district of the city as part of this year's Milan design week.
Bram Vanderbeke presented primitive objects that were sculpted, ground and hammered into prefabricated elements
Described by curator Wendy Plomp as a "glimpse into the future of design", the exhibition included the work of 10 Dutch designers who were each challenged to contemplate possible scenarios taking place in the future.
"Efficiency and self-sufficiency will become the new standard as humanity, faced with global challenges, shifts from consumerism towards next-level forms of harvesting," said Plomp. A metallic twig by Hongjie Yang was intended to represent the impact humans have had on the landscape
"Renewable energy, urban mining, big data, and so on, make us rethink the cycle of resources, production, storage and distribution. This will drastically alter the existing economical formats our society is built upon," she continued.
"We will rebalance supply and demand disconnected from profit. Ultimately, wealth and power will have to bow to responsibility. We will reap what we sow."
Lea Baert presented a wall lamp, consisting out of a recycled fan interwoven with leather pieces
Each of the works was displayed inside an old warehouse space upon colo...