Explore the essential role of the furniture industry in advancing a more sustainable world by rethinking production, materials, and value.
Designers, makers, and manufactures are working with overlooked organic materials and industrial waste streams - and exploring craftsmanship – to challenge disposability and leverage reuse.
Furniture can - and should - circulate, to live a longer and more diverse life. The key to furniture that endures is circular design combined with thoughtful manufacturing principles.
Furniture is deeply embedded in the global movement. Therefore its best future may be neither entirely local nor fully global. What would 21st-century furniture systems look like if more deeply connected to place?