Since the industrial age, technology has significantly improved our quality of life. For many, it has even extended life. But the costs to our natural environment are immense and demand reckoning. At MODA or the Museum of Design Atlanta, a new exhibition, “Full Circle: Design Without End,” explores how design projects sustain and regenerate natural systems. “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes joined MODA’s executive director Laura Flusche via Zoom and the exhibition’s co-curator, Veronica Klusik, to talk about some of the exhibit’s features.
Ecological approaches to product design:
“There is a section about circular design, which is the idea of not creating virgin materials like virgin plastic or virgin nylon, but being able to take the plastic and nylon objects we have and recycle and reuse them,” Flusche explained. “Bureo [works] out of South America, and they rescue fishing nets. Fishing nets are the single largest contributor of plastic pollution in our oceans. So they rescue fishing nets that have been discarded in the oceans, recycle them, and then work with companies like Patagonia to turn them into outerwear and sports clothing that we might wear.”
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