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  • Live interview with Xandra van der Eijk as part of Virtual Design Festival

    Xandra van der Eijk spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. More

    Siufan Adey | 19 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Better Nature exhibition

    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg "trying to evoke emotion" with Better Nature show

    British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's solo show at Vitra Design Museum asks questions about our place in the natural world. We look at the six projects on display in the exhibition. More

    Augusta Pownall | 26 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Design Miami Basel Aric Chen Elements: Earth exhibition

    Design Miami/Basel explores the anthropocene with Elements: Earth exhibition

    Curator Aric Chen has explored how we will use materials in a new geological age, in the headline exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel. More

    Augusta Pownall | 21 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Kelly Jazvac presents plastiglomerate objects at Milan Triennale

    Kelly Jazvac presents "beautiful and horrific" plastiglomerate lumps at Milan Triennale

    Chunks of "plastiglomerate" found by Canadian artist Kelly Jazvac on a Hawaiian beach form part of this year's Milan Triennale exhibition, illustrating how the anthropocene era is leading to the formation of new man-made minerals. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 21 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Photograph of Jakarta, Indonesia, is courtesy of Shutterstock

    "As environmental catastrophe unfolds, we need architecture that is more than just green"

    We've woken up to the reality of the anthropocene era and realised the catastrophic damage we've inflicted on the planet. Now we must develop a new form of architecture that can adapt to major environmental changes, says Darran Anderson. More

    Darran Anderson | 23 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Xandra van der Eijk's installation explores feelings of ecological grief

    Xandra van der Eijk's installation explores feelings of ecological grief

    A series of 3D-printed models of the foot of a receding glacier in Switzerland feature in this installation by Dutch designer Xandra van der Eijk, which examines the notion of ecological grief. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 21 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • The panel for Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talk during Dutch Design Week 2018

    "More science fiction" needed to save planet earth, say designers at Dezeen talk

    Designers need to think of bigger, more ambitious solutions to the world's problems, according to speakers at Dezeen's talk about design in the anthropocene era during Dutch Design Week. More

    Marcus Fairs | 3 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Yesenia Thibault-Picazo's objects are "time capsules for an imagined future"

    Yesenia Thibault-Picazo crafts objects from precious materials of the future

    London-based designer Yesenia Thibault-Picazo has created three household objects for the anthropocene era, using materials she believes will be used by craftsmen hundreds of years in the future. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 22 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • New Primitives II by Bram Vanderberke

    Bram Vanderbeke uses concrete waste blocks to create neolithic-looking furniture

    Ghent-based designer Bram Vanderbeke has sculpted a series of abstract furniture pieces from blocks made of concrete waste that are treated with pigments and waxes to give an unexpected texture.  More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 18 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Future Remnants by Xandra van der Eijk

    Xandra van der Eijk's metalwork explores effects of chemical waste dumping

    Dutch designer Xandra van der Eijk has poured household chemicals onto widely available metal objects in an installation that aims to demonstrate how chemical waste dumping is affecting the earth in the anthropocene era. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 9 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Dutch Invertuals present products that champion using less

    Dutch Invertuals presents products that champion using less

    Eindhoven-based design studio Dutch Invertuals has curated an exhibition of 10 objects, to question whether – in the anthropocene era –  it is possible to reduce the volume of non-essential products in our lives. More

    Ali Morris | 30 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Sponge Mountain by Angelo Renno

    Artificial mountain made of soil could soak up pollution in Turin

    Sponge Mountain is a proposal by architect Angelo Renna for a 90-metre-high mound of soil, which would absorb carbon dioxide from the air in Turin. More

    India Block | 25 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Good Design for a Bad World: the anthropocene

    Watch our talk about design and the anthropocene at Dutch Design Week 2018

    Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to an expert panel about how designers can shape the anthropocene era to prevent global catastrophe in our latest Good Design for a Bad World talk. More

    Benedict Hobson | 20 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Geoenginneering

    Five geoengineering solutions proposed to fight climate change

    If humans can't reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, can we design our way out of climate-change catastrophe? Last week's UN report shone a light on geoengineering, a discipline that proposes large-scale interventions to counteract global warming. So what ideas are geoengineers proposing? More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 18 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Good Design for a Bad World

    "Humans are clever. They can solve problems. There is hope"

    We are entering a new geological era: the anthropocene, in which human activity is a dominant influence on earth's geology and environment. At Dutch Design Week, a special edition of our Good Design for a Bad World series will ask if design can harness this phenomenon to prevent global catastrophe, writes Marcus Fairs. More

    Marcus Fairs | 17 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Jie Wu seeks to elevate value of plastic with series of miniature boxes

    Jie Wu seeks to elevate value of plastic with series of miniature boxes

    Blocks of resin with colourful marble-like patterns surround chunks of wood to form these miniature storage boxes by Royal College of Art graduate Jie Wu. More

    Ali Morris | 26 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Dutch Invertuals explores material making in the Anthropocene era

    Design collective Dutch Invertuals has teamed up with research studio Franklin Till to explore how man-made materials can be "mutated" and repurposed. More

    Ali Morris | 20 April 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Shahar Livne uses waste plastic to create Lithoplast, a precious material of the future

    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shahar Livne has created a clay-like material using discarded plastic that could be mined by future civilisations. More

    Trudie Carter | 28 October 2017 | 1 comment

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