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23 March – 1 September 2024 | Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, GERMANY
The exhibition, ‘Transform! Designing for the Future of Energy’ focuses on how design plays a key role in the transition to renewable energy. It covers the design of everyday products that use renewable energy, from the design of solar houses to wind power stations, and smart mobility systems to self-sufficient cities.
[Read more…] about Transform! Designing the Future of Energy17 November 2023 – 3 March 2024 | Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, DENMARK
The Changing our Footprint exhibition, organized by Henning Larsen Architects and hosted at the Danish Architecture Center, showcases innovative approaches to carbon-friendly construction, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable architecture in the face of the climate crisis.
[Read more…] about Changing our Footprint8 July 2023 – 10 March 2024 | Design Museum, LONDON.
‘How to Build a Low-Carbon Home’, an exhibition at London’s Design Museum, explores how we can design homes to respond to the climate emergency, given that almost 30% of global carbon emissions are caused by construction and the running of buildings.
[Read more…] about How to Build a Low-Carbon Home2 September 2023 – 7 July 2024 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, ‘Life Cycles: the Materials of Contemporary Design’, exhibits 80 projects by 40 designers, examining the full life cycle of materials – from extraction to recycling, upscaling, or disposal. Featuring projects from MoMA’s collection, the exhibition explores the role design can play in addressing current environmental issues. It highlights examples of ingenious reuse, upscaling, and the use of waste as a new material.
[Read more…] about Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design, at MoMAThames and Hudson has published a compact edition of architect and scientist Sandra Piesik’s 2017 book, Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate. The book demonstrates how local buildings have withstood the test of time and explores lessons for the future.
It is organised by climate zones (tropical, dry, temperate, continental, polar) and explores regions within each zone to demonstrate how buildings styles have evolved according to climatic conditions and vegetation. The appendix features case studies of contemporary vernacular architecture from around the world. Thames and Hudson
8 November 2022 – 29 April 2023.
The RIBA ‘Long Life, Low Energy: Design for a Circular Economy’ shows how the principles of the circular economy can help develop net zero architecture. The exhibition follows RIBA’s Built for the Environment report which concludes that 38% of the global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to the built environment. RIBA