Rethinking Plastic

Dealing with plastic differently, we have to and it is possible

Hosted by Yksi Expo

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

Main exhibition Rethinking Plastic

Jeroen van der Wielen

Plastic is considered a cheap material, which is why we easily throw it away. With all its consequences. High time to look at plastic differently and deal with it differently. There is plenty of movement around this often-maligned material, both among designers, knowledge institutes and companies.

Dealing with plastic differently

From naturally dyed biotextiles to a 3D-printed stool made from a mixture of raw materials from drinking water production and sewage treatment. And from acoustic panels to research into materials that allow people to live in balance with nature again, resulting in packaging material based on algae. Rethinking Plastic in a surprising and stimulating way Yksi Expo shows how we can look at plastic differently and deal with this world's most maligned material in a different way. The urgency of plastic as an environmental problem is clear, but at the same time we can hardly imagine a world without plastic. See the applications in the medical field, in the field of electricity, in cars and planes and in household appliances. So we have to start thinking differently about plastic as a material and dealing with it differently. Designers can help with that. With alternatives from renewable materials, or by such designs that plastic products last longer and can be separated better and therefore are easier to recycle. They can also think of ways to reuse plastic. And they can create plastic products with (emotional) value, which creates a different experience.

Main exhibition Rethinking Plastic

Jeroen van der Wielen

Wint designLab

Ochis

Vilnius academy of art

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Participants of this exhibition

Van-Hier

BioModule

Austeja Platukyte

Biodegradable algae-based foam packaging

AMIBM in collaboration with Lena Winterink

Pure Nature: 100% BioBased

Bureau SLA, Overtreders W & Pretty Plastic

PrettyPlastic tiles

Omlab in collaboration with Lilian van Daal

Stroncq

Save Plastics

Save Cabin

Omlab in collaboration with MVRDV

Modular by nature

Zena Holloway

Rootfull

Ylem (Midushi Kochhar)

Eggware

Ochis

Ochis Tsvit

Adam Friedrich and Beata Mielus

Reos

Laura van de Wijdeven

Philia, Bio-plant

Melanie Bos

Gløv - “Believe in self-love, believe in a better world.”

Irene Martinez and Irene Segarra

Agne Kucerenkaite and Marija Spokaite

Biofuel Waste is Bliss

Elho

Pure Grass & Greenest Canals Pot

Studio Sarmite and Roua Atelier

The many Lives of Colour

Thomas Vailly

The dairy farm is a universe

SintLucas, vakschool voor creatief talent

Rethinking Plastic Academy

WINT Design Lab

GOLD

Brightlands

Breeding ground for innovation

Lucrezia Alessandroni

The Soothing Cup

Positive Plastics

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