Dundee Design Festival has outlined the sustainability strategy that it hopes will make Scotland's largest design event the world's most sustainable design festival.
Clean energy, electric transport and an entirely tinned beverage offering are all part of the Dundee Design Festival's (DDF) sustainability strategy, while its most ambitious initiative centres on materials and circularity.
The Dundee Design Festival will reuse stored exhibition materials from the V&A Dundee. Photo by Grant Anderson
The festival ? Scotland's largest design event ? has committed to using a maximum of 30 per cent new materials in constructing its entire event site, which will be located at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc in September.
This target will include stands for over 100 participating designers, as well as installations by Donna Wilson, Timorous Beasties, Gabriella Marcella and AdesignStorie. Some of the used materials will come from the V&A Dundee's Tartan exhibition, some from Edinburgh craft and design gallery Bard and some from local suppliers, and everything is intended to have a further life after the event.
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