Swedish furniture designer Emma Olbers has created the Now or Never ? 1kg CO2e exhibition at Stockholm Furniture Fair to showcase the climate impact of materials commonly used in architecture and furniture design.
By physically displaying how much of a certain material needs to be produced to create one kilogram of carbon emissions, Olbers aims to better visualise the benefits of choosing sustainable materials.
The Now or Never ? 1kg CO2e exhibition is on show at Stockholm Furniture Fair
"You can almost think of it like it's money; it's more value for the emission," she told Dezeen. "If you're doing a seat for a chair, you don't really get a whole seat [for 1kg of CO2e emissions] if you choose leather. But if you choose woven rattan, you get six and a half metres, which is maybe 10 seats." "If you think of it like 'this is how much you get for your money,' then people really understand," she added.
It showcases carbon emission equivalents for about forty common materials
The exhibition is on show as part of Stockholm Furniture Fair, the world's largest platform for Scandinavian design.
It places around forty materials side by side to investigate which provides the most value when considering their carbon emissions.
Designer Emma Olbers created the exhibition
For example, while one kilogram of CO2e emissions will give you just a small square of concrete weighing in at 4.4 kilograms, you'll get 7.7 kilograms of limestone tiles, which will cover...