Eight designs that make use of waste products
The Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art features projects that repurpose waste products. Here are eight highlights including vases sculpted from PVC pipes.
The exhibit comprises over 30 projects that reimagine discarded materials and byproducts ? sourced from manufacturing, agriculture, food and human waste ? including building materials, home furnishings and fashion accessories.
"What we are seeing is designers on a global scale are looking at waste materials and waste streams and seeing them not as something to turn our backs on, but really thinking of them as a query for future work," curator Judith Hoos Fox told Dezeen.
Many of the projects are created by recent graduates or university-led initiatives. They are intended to explore more socially and environmentally responsible means of production and product design in response to climate change. "We really hope that this is part of a 'see change'," Hoos Fox added, "that visitors will start seeing in the waste that surrounds us possibilities and the larger view is an awareness of the fragility of the world, the environment in which we live."
"Designers are real players in working in this situation, and offering alternatives."
Hoos Fox and Ginger Duggan, of C2-Curatorsquared, curated the exhibition for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art alongside the museum's assistant curator Lauren O'Connell.
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