The NYCXDesign festival highlights dozens of new collections, while focusing on sustainable, equitable solutions to global crises, including climate change and food scarcity.
Here’s a partial list of the world’s many problems: climate change, food shortages, inequality in the global health system, empty office towers in need of residential conversion. A stylish, sustainable sofa or LED light fixture made with recycled metal won’t magically heal our fractured state and damaged planet. But as this year’s festival attests, growing segments of the design world are meeting the challenges of the moment.
The opening-day webinar, “What Is the Carbon Footprint of a Piece of Furniture?”, breaks down the impact of every stage in the manufacturing and delivery of a typical chair, sofa or table and how designers and makers large and small can bend toward sustainability in materials, packaging, transport and disposal.
“When the pandemic hit, it was a lot of reckoning with all of our values. And people were reevaluating how they spend their time and their connection to the world,” says Lee, citing pandemic-era Instagram feeds that were dominated by outdoor activities including gardening and bird watching. “The title of this show comes at a time in our careers when we’re not trying to blast off base and become uber-famous artists,” says Frezza. “We’re really honing in on our craft and vision.”Courtesy NYCXDesign
“Sustainability is core to my brand and everything I do,” says Minkoff, who last year launched a blockchain-enabled sustainability tool and supply chain tracking platform. “Stone requires less processing than synthetic materials, but experiencing the wonders of nature and working with stone firsthand has been eye opening. Unexpected veins and fossils show up in the middle of a block. It’s unbelievable that the Earth reveals millions of years of history in every piece that’s extracted.
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