Low-Tech in Design. Good for the Climate
Cooling consumes up a lot of electricity and generates high CO2 emissions. Young designers have tackled the question of how energy consumption in design can be reduced right from the […]
Peter Ghyczy. More than plastic and zeitgeist
To this day, the name Peter Ghyczy is inseparably linked with his “Egg Chair” from 1968. The furniture of the pop era hides more than just the spirit of a […]
Re-Wind works on the reuse of wind turbine rotor blades
Wind turbines that are being renewed or have reached the end of their useful life are difficult to recycle or reuse. The Re-Wind Network is working on the reuse of […]
UN resolution to end plastic pollution
According to the United Nations, plastics production has grown from two million tonnes in 1950 to 348 million tonnes in 2017. In the process, it has become a global industry […]
materials.cologne 2022 – The Conference for Design and Innovation
Workshop & Talk at Design Post Cologne and online on Zoom “Materials and Future Technologies”: 24 and 25 March 2022, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Future Materials Talk”: 24 […]
materials.cologne – The Digital Conference for Design and Innovation
Focus 2022: “Materials and Future Technologies The fifth edition of materials.cologne, the well-known platform for knowledge exchange, dialogue and networking on the topic of material innovation, will focus this year […]
Monobloc. What matters is that you sit
The best-selling piece of furniture of all time: With “Monobloc”, Hauke Wendler has succeeded in making a great documentary that is much more than a film about design. He tracks […]
“Functionality is a key incentive”. An interview with the founders of FOND OF
With FOND OF, Sven-Oliver Pink, Florian Michajlezko and Dr. Oliver Steinki have managed to conjure fantastic, successful brands from scratch and consistently develop them. New ideas, openness, persistence, sustainability and […]
Sustainable material alternative. Popcorn insulation boards for buildings
Not only can you eat popcorn, puffed corn can also be used in a completely different way. Pressed into special sheets, the maize product can be used in furniture construction, […]
Sun-powered Textiles. Textiles as energy producers at Aalto University
The fibre material, the textile structure, the density, the colour and the type of post-treatment influence the optical properties of textiles. In principle, they can be designed to transmit sunlight. […]
The Institute of Design Research Vienna and designaustria have established rules for Circular Design
“Turn disposable products into heirlooms or build houses for just one generation! Practice professional disobedience against design briefings of the linear economy!”, it says in the intro. Many agree that […]
3D injection printing. Using concrete efficiently in filigree structures
Concrete consists of cement, water and different aggregates. It is cheap, available in large quantities, easy to process and durable. Reasons enough why no other material is used so frequently […]
“It’s a design flaw if devices are not repairable”: Shiftphone designers Carsten and Samuel Waldeck
The brothers Carsten and Samuel Waldeck founded SHIFT GmbH together in 2014. With the sustainable m-series of the SHIFTPHONE, the startup introduced the world’s most modular smartphone in 2016. SHIFT’s […]
The 2021 architecture biennale in Venice. Building and living in the Anthropocene
How will we live together? It is a question that is as simple as it is fundamental. Chief curator Hashim Sarkis is asking it at the 17th International Architecture Biennale […]
Inks and pastes. Printing circuits on flexible films
If materials are both stretchable and conductive, multifunctional electronic sensor systems can be more easily integrated into clothing or attached to three-dimensional surfaces. To make this possible, a team from […]
Antje von Dewitz from VAUDE: “Sustainability is a modern business discipline”
Antje von Dewitz, entrepreneur and CEO of the mountain sports outfitter VAUDE, talks to Jörg Thadeusz about her very own way of acting as sustainably as possible with her company: […]
Circular Design: Second Love
To close the circle, products and systems must not only be designed differently, but infrastructures and services must also be offered. We present best practice examples for circular design from […]
“Our furniture is a statement”
Philipp Mainzer could have celebrated the 25-year anniversary of his company e15 last year. However, the pandemic prevented any sort of large celebration. We spoke with Mainzer about how the […]
Shaping a Circular Economy together
Designers and architects have a major role in the transformation into a circular economy. While this calls for interdisciplinary collaboration and holistic design, what we need above all is an […]
New European Bauhaus: The path to a sustainable future
As partners in the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus initiative, member-companies from the German Design Council’s network are researching how industry and business can contribute to making Europe climate-neutral by […]