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3D Printing: Innovating for Climate
3D Printing: Innovating for Climate
Designers and brands are experimenting with 3D printing to respond to climate change in furniture. In this 4th article in our FURNITURE in the NEW CLIMATE ECONOMY series, we explore the application of 3D printing to furniture design, its potential for climate mitigation, innovative companies, and environmental challenges posed by this technology.
Changemakers: PROWL Studio
Changemakers: PROWL Studio
“We’re always searching, researching, hunting ... hence our name PROWL.” In this fourth Changemakers interview, we talk to Lauryn Menard and Baillie Mishler -- co-founders of PROWL Studio -- about their hemp-based, compostable PEEL Chair and how they use regenerative design, practicality and collaboration to shape materials, furniture and spaces.
Changemakers: Model No.
Changemakers: Model No.
Read our interview with Model No. - ‘modelers’ who are disrupting the furniture industry with digital manufacturing and 3D printing. We ask CEO Philip Raub about Model No.'s aspirations to make ever-more circular products. And what it will take to drive industry-wide change.
Webinar: Carbon and Furniture
Webinar: Carbon and Furniture
What is equivalent carbon, embodied carbon and carbon footprint - and how do they relate to furniture? In our latest webinar, we explore approaches to measuring the full carbon footprint of a piece of furniture – looking at methods, tools and resources to assess impact and to design out waste and emissions. Watch and read about the webinar!
Scouting Milan Design Week: Towards a Furniture Revolution
Scouting Milan Design Week: Towards a Furniture Revolution
Join our tour of Milan Design Week 2023! We’d love to share the beautiful innovations in furniture that we found — all of which hold promise in advancing a circular future. With radars on high alert, our team walked miles on a four-theme search: Treasuring Waste, Exploring Biomaterials, Repurposing Plastic, and Designing for Flexibility.
Can A.I. help furniture designers and the planet?
Can A.I. help furniture designers and the planet?
A.I. has been all over the news in recent months – often accompanied by frightening predictions. In the third article in our FURNITURE in the NEW CLIMATE ECONOMY series, we discuss how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the future of design - and how some furniture designers are harnessing A.I.'s power towards a far more circular economy.
Climate Activist Consumers Business responds
Climate Activist Consumers Business responds
Consumers are using their purchasing power to fight climate change. In our second article in the FURNITURE in the NEW CLIMATE ECONOMY series, we explore how businesses in the furniture industry tap into this consumer-activist trend, bringing innovation to areas as wide-ranging as design, production, service and communication.