Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and its affiliate HKDI Gallery, present a thought-provoking exhibition showing what design can do to tackle the critical problem of waste and its environmental consequences across the globe. ‘Waste Age: What Can Design Do?’, a touring exhibition from The Design Museum, London is set to open on 3 February 2023 at the HKDI d-mart. 

The ‘Waste Age: What Can Design Do?’ exhibition exposes society’s ‘take, make and waste’ economy, which has created an environmental crisis, and explores what design can do to rethink the way we produce and consume goods. It reveals the visionary designers who are transforming waste into valuable resources and developing new materials and systems to reduce waste and its impact on our planet. By promoting new – and old – ways of living with nature, design can help steer us to a cleaner future.Featured designers include Formafantasma, Stella McCartney, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Fernando Laposse, Bethany Williams, and Phoebe English.

In addition to these international efforts, numerous regional designers have been striving to ease the problem of waste. The Hong Kong exhibition at HKDI Gallery also presents a range of examples from Asia, that cover a wide range of topics. These include the successful case of “The Billies System”, a textile recycling process that closes the loop of waste from the fashion industry, the “BioChar Cement and Mortor”, an innovative solution to combat the carbon dioxide emissions that wood waste produces in local landfill sites, and the “Skeleton Series-02”, a sculpture by local artist Vincent Lee that highlights the link between human behaviour and the pollution of oceanic ecosystems.

Venue address: d-mart, HKDI, 3 King Ling Road, Tiu Keng Leng, Tseung Kwan O