Info meeting: Design-driven change for sustainable plastic systems

18 Jun 2024 / 15.00 - 17.00

Workshop

Floor 3

Welcome to an info meeting and workshop about an open call where practitioners in design and architecture are invited to participate in a collective exhibition about plastics.

FEWER TYPES by Kajsa Willner

The exhibition will provide space for designers and architects to explore and communicate the role of plastics in a circular economy in a co-creative process. The exhibition is part of the STEPS-project Design-driven change for sustainable plastic systems. The project brings together several parties and received funds in Formas annual communication call in 2023 with the aim of communicating STEPS' interdisciplinary research on plastics. STEPS is characterized by its scientific breadth and close collaboration with organisations that represent the entire value chain within plastics and is led from Lund University.

Program

– Introduction of Design-driven change for sustainable plastic systems

Noomi Egan – Communicator, Lund University
Julia Hertzman – Architect, Form/process
Anna Gudmundsdottir – Project manager SPOK, Form/Design Center

– Lecture on plastics from a material and system perspective

Fredric Bauer – Researcher and Assistant Associate Professor, Lund University

– Q&A about the call

– Reflection on co-creation and dialogue; design and academia

Fredric Bauer – Researcher and Assistant Associate Professor, Lund University
Kajsa Willner – Designer, Studio Kajsa Willner

STEPS, Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways

The STEPS research program was initiated in 2016. Its vision is a future society where plastic is produced, used and recycled sustainably in a circular economy.

The program is led by Lund University, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, RISE, IVL, 22 industry partners and Region Skåne. STEPS is funded by Mistra, the Foundation for environmental strategic research.

Registration

Open call: Plastic Perspectives

Apply before 22 aug 2024.

Open call

Together with STEPS, Sustainable Plastics and Transitions Pathways, Form/Design Center is looking for architects and designers who want to create objects or prototypes for a collective exhibition that highlights plastic as a material.

STEPS, Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways

Forskningsprogrammet STEPS initierades 2016. Dess vision är ett framtida samhälle där plast produceras, används och återvinns på ett hållbart sätt i en cirkulär ekonomi.

Programmet leds av Lunds universitet, i samarbete med Köpenhamns universitet, RISE, IVL, 22 industripartners och Region Skåne. STEPS är finansierat av Mistra, Stiftelsen for miljöstrategisk forskning.