SPECIAL AREA | PIAZZA


RECYCLED WASTE


s part of the Innovation of the Interior Piazza, Dr Sascha Peters, founder of the Haute Innovation agency in Berlin, staged the Circular Thinking conference. The programme of lectures looked at the options of closed material cycles in design and architecture. Dr Peters says: “In view of the increasing world population and the extent of resources oriented on the consumption of the 20th century, the circular economy will become an ideal conception for the management and handling of existing materials. The strategic approach is aimed at obtaining closed material cycles, letting materials circulate, if possible, within closed cycles and preserving the value of products as long as being economically reasonable and qualitatively possible.” Several high-ranking experts were on hand to discuss, within the context of four main topics, the innovation potentials based on outstanding developments in recent years.


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The ‘Building from Waste’ session looked at how the construction industry is responsible for a large portion of


the world-wide consumption of resources. Therefore, the guidelines for sustainable construction are nowadays the reduction, reuse, recycling and recovering of materials. The ‘Bio-Design Materials’ seminar examined materials


such as antibacterial felting made of old milk, furniture made of brown algae or leather made of fruit remains: driven by the desire for an ecological production culture, designers are again and again inspired to create extraordinary ideas and product designs by using organic residual materials and creating biologically-based manufacturing processes. For ‘Biofabrication’, attendees heard about the idea of


FACT BOX


replacing conventional production methods by biological growth processes and thus providing for a sustainable management and use of our resources. Alongside the conference, the display


RECYCLING : During the average western human’s lifetime, he/she will produce 600 times their own weight in trash – enough to fill a good few trucks. The best way to use Earth’s resources more sensibly is to reduce the amount of things that we use (for example, less packaging) and to reuse things instead of throwing them away. If we can’t reduce or reuse, and we have to throw things away, recycling them is far better.


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area showed a variety of products where designers presented ideas and products that provide an overview of sustainable upcycling. It’s also where visitors could find products as varied as chairs made from biomaterials, seats made from plant or vegetable waste and the Zostera Stool made from seagrass!


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