Is Repair the Future of Design" Katie Treggiden Explores?
"Is repair the future of design"" That's the question that our Editor at Large Katie Treggiden is asking as she launches her 6th book, Broken.
“Is repair the future of design"” That’s the question that our very own Editor at Large, author, podcaster, and keynote speaker Katie Treggiden is asking as she launches her sixth book, Broken: Mending & Repair in a Throwaway World (published by Ludion and available in the US from May 29). “The linear “take-make-waste” model is no longer working,” she says. “The design industry needs to embrace the circular economy, and fast.”
Katie Treggiden. Photography by Emma Oates.
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation website: “In our current economy, we take materials from the Earth, make products from them, and eventually throw them away as waste ? the process is linear. In a circular economy, by contrast, we stop waste being produced in the first place.” Describing the circular economy as “driven by design,” the organization proposes three principles: “eliminate waste and pollution”, “keep materials and objects in use”, and “regenerate nature”. Bouke de Vries featured in Broken (Ludion, 2023)
Treggiden’s previous book, Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure (Ludion, 2020) explores the idea of keeping materials in use ? i.e. using waste rather than raw materials to create new products. She...
“Is repair the future of design"” That’s the question that our very own Editor at Large, author, podcaster, and keynote speaker Katie Treggiden is asking as she launches her sixth book, Broken: Mending & Repair in a Throwaway World (published by Ludion and available in the US from May 29). “The linear “take-make-waste” model is no longer working,” she says. “The design industry needs to embrace the circular economy, and fast.”
Katie Treggiden. Photography by Emma Oates.
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation website: “In our current economy, we take materials from the Earth, make products from them, and eventually throw them away as waste ? the process is linear. In a circular economy, by contrast, we stop waste being produced in the first place.” Describing the circular economy as “driven by design,” the organization proposes three principles: “eliminate waste and pollution”, “keep materials and objects in use”, and “regenerate nature”. Bouke de Vries featured in Broken (Ludion, 2023)
Treggiden’s previous book, Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure (Ludion, 2020) explores the idea of keeping materials in use ? i.e. using waste rather than raw materials to create new products. She...
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