Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure
- Author
- Katie Treggiden
- Year
- 2020
Katie Treggiden profiles thirty designers, makers and manufacturers who use waste as their primary raw material, alongside five essays on what that shift means culturally and environmentally. Published by Ludion, the book treats dwindling resources and growing waste streams as an opportunity for design rather than only a problem.
Treggiden profiles thirty designers and makers who treat waste as their raw material, with essays on what that shift means culturally and environmentally. A hopeful study of the SDF's Technological component reimagined — trash reframed as feedstock.
Published by Ludion, the book profiles thirty designers, makers and manufacturers who use waste as their primary material, framing this as a response to dwindling natural resources and the growing scale of waste streams. Alongside the profiles, five thematic essays examine the social, cultural and environmental implications of designing with waste.
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- Broken: Mending and repair in a throwaway world · by the same author: Katie Treggiden
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