Embassy of Rethinking Plastic

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

Root on Root

Zena Holloway

With Rethinking Plastic, Yksi Expo shows in a surprising and stimulating way how we can look at and deal with plastic, the world’s most maligned material, differently. As an originally cheap material, it is easily discarded. With all its consequences. It is high time to change our view on plastics!

Embassy of Rethinking Plastic

The urgency of plastic as an environmental problem is clear, but at the same time, a world without plastic is hardly imaginable. Designers are developing alternatives. Think of products that last longer, are easier to separate and therefore more recyclable. Or, for example, systems that enable us to collect plastic in a meaningful way, reuse it and upcycle it into new products. But they also help to create (emotional) value in products so that users start to experience plastic differently. Through continuously changing exhibitions, lectures and workshops, the Embassy in 2022 will be addressing the entire chain. Under Rethinking Plastic Academy, students from various design courses, such as SintLucas College Eindhoven/Boxtel, Minerva Groningen and L’École de design Nantes, are working on the topic of plastics. During Dutch Design Week 2022, the Embassy takes you along the material’s many possibilities. From naturally dyed bio-textiles to 3D printed furniture based on residues from drinking water production and sewage treatment. And from acoustic panels to material research resulting in algae-based packaging material base. In addition, participants and partners such as Brightlands

Participants of this exhibition

Pure Nature: 100% BioBased

Brabantia

Brabantia StepUp Pedal Bin 40L

Bureau SLA, Overtreders W & Pretty Plastic

PrettyPlastic tiles

Save Plastics

Save Cabin

Irene Martinez and Irene Segarra

Nontalo

Omlab in collaboration with Lilian van Daal

Stroncq

Omlab in collaboration with MVRDV

Modular by nature

Zena Holloway

Rootfull

Ylem (Midushi Kochhar)

Eggware

Ochis

Tsvit

Studio Sarmite and Roua Atelier

The many Lives of Colour

Adam Friedrich and Beata Mielus

Reos

Laura van de Wijdeven

Biodegradable algae-based foam packaging

Lucrezia Alessandroni

The Soothing Cup

Agne Kucerenkaite and Marija Spokaite

Biofuel Waste is Bliss

Green Future Club

Ecole Design Nantes Atlantique & Malakio

Seashell Circularity

Minerva Academy Groningen

Materials lead the way

SintLucas

studentenwerk

Nationaal Museum Wereldculturen

Plastic Crush

OPEN2ALL

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World Design Embassies deploys the power of design in the development of new perspectives and concrete directions to societal challenges. In open coalitions, we work with partners and designers on the future. WDE is a programme of Dutch Design Foundation.

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