Designers have always contributed to shaping material culture, which makes them important actors in the context of transformative change. This design conversation therefore aims to bring the discourse on regenerative perspectives in design to design students and design professionals who are significantly involved in material decisions for new consumer products and living and working environments. They areoften themselves the initiators of future-oriented perspectives to address the major ecological challenges of our time. One example is the project Phytophilia by Danish designer Sara Martinsen, which explores aesthetic and functional potentials of plant fibres for product and textile design, architecture and applied art.
This conversation takes Sara Martinsen's project as a starting point for discourse and raises questions about possible applications and ecologically relevant aspects of plant fibres: Can the use of plant fibres in design always be equated with sustainability? Can consumers be influenced in their purchasing decisions in the long term by natural material aesthetics? What is the significance of material culture in general for sustainability and transformative change? These and other questions will be discussed with speakers from design, business and academia: Sara Martinsen, Svenja Keune, Dr. Kirsten Scott, Jess Redgrave.
This is a Symbio(s)cene event. Symbio(s)cene is a non-profit organisation that aims to contribute to the development of new, regenerative worldviews and to encourage thinking beyond the Anthropocene. Symbio(s)cene pursues a holistic approach that enables transdisciplinary dialogue between the sciences and the arts, in particular the connection of their distict knowledge cultures, approaches and methods– in order to foster sustainable human-nature relationships and thus open up new perspectives for a livable future for all living beings.
