Design Directions

Form follows CO2

Health & beauty

Eco-friendly beauty that is not tested on animals and made without animal-derived ingredients or by-products. Products are completely zero waste and plastic-free and use natural, ethically-sourced, and organic ingredients. Transport emissions are minimized and compensated for. Packaging is refillable through the use of metal tins, recycled glass and 100% post-consumer recycled plastic.

Water is an ingredient to consider for beauty products, whether skin hydration or products made without water. Waterless beauty is an innovative, green solution for beauty products.

Fermented beauty products help skin absorption. Once an ingredient is fermented, the microbes break down into smaller, more absorbable molecules, making ingredients more efficient at performing their job.

Vegan

Cruelty free

Waterless

Fermented beauty

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Zero Station by Aromatica

Waterful Lotion by Toun28

Mostly organic. Completely vegan. Zero waste by Clean-Faced Cosmetics

Exploring Issues of Womanhood by Lin Yung Cheng

Waterless beauty by Curiously Conscious

Fermented Skincare by Circulove

Food

Eat like a climatarian to contribute to the Earth with a diet that consists of plants, fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and nuts.

Pickling, curing, smoking, and other age-old methods are a means for food preservation for plant-forward products such as sauces and healthy oils. Leave the mixture to brew for months, and then cold-smoking and bottling.

Food waste trackers using AI image recognition technology that can tackle the issue of food waste to learn about how much “avoidable waste” is being generated in a kitchen.

Positive ecological food must be grown in a regenerative and local way and actively restore nature and biodiversity. Fight landscape degradation, become nature inclusive and move away from monoculture.

Climavore

Fermentation

Analyzing waste

Regenerative food

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Insight by Lumitics

Plan C by Makhno

Fermented healthy oils by Zero Acre Farms

Misfit Snackbar by Bo Porytko

Garum by Noma Projects

Tea that contributes directly to the recovery of Dutch biodiversity by Wilder Land

Woman’s clothing

Soft rib-knit garments that hug the body. Traceable wool for essential, simple, clean, minimalistic and comfortable clothes.

Combine design thinking, ethnographic research and an artistic approach towards craftsmanship for artisan pieces related to everyday life.

Critical garment making is needed to reinvent fashion by following the production and distribution to examine what garments represent and how they function and move in the world.

Functional, protective and convertible clothes, volume and shape are created through zippers and drawstrings.

Upcycle industrial waste for new garments, cut up used garments and reuse them in a new way.

Rib knits

Crafts

Reinvent fashion

Upcycle

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Bodysuit by Leap Concept

Coat by Gunia Project

Soft Opening by Tenant of Culture

Outfit by Rolf Ekroth

Skirt by Y/Project

Outfit by RE;CODE

Men’s clothing

Technical outdoor-ready pieces that can overcome changing weather conditions. Adaptive ranges for multi-season wear with highly durable, resilient garments. Fabrics are made stronger as a result of innovative knitting technologies. Lightweight and durable fabrics that do not wear out easily.

Designing a collection that requires a level of function, where someone’s life may depend on it and being uncompromising in the aesthetic is an exciting challenge.

Mixing codes, city styles with outdoor elements, mixing work-wear with a classic wardrobe, changeable and adaptive to the situation. A uniform look, that blends traditional cotton fabrics with synthetic textiles.

A fashion collection can be an evolution of the research process behind the clothes.

Adaptive

Outdoor ready

Mixing codes

The process

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Gore-tex collection by Norse Projects

Durable Cordura T-shirt by ONFAdd

Outdoor collection by Templa

Outfit by Zegna

Reworks collection by David Catalán

4.0 Technical jacket center by Post Archive Fashion

Living

A house can contribute to people’s wellbeing through light, brightness, colour use and natural elements. Design a house in a way that it brings in maximum sunlight. The use of colour and being surrounded by plants affects the mind.

Through bending and creating the right angles, comfort can be created using hard and simple materials. There is beauty in raw materials. Furniture can be cheap, simple and fun to build. Building furniture can create more connections.

Prefab modular studio units can be used for shared co-living with adaptable furniture such as a bed that folds up when not in use and stackable boxes for storage. Spaces are designed to be reconfigured to fit all personal and social needs.

Daylight and colour

Simple comfort

Self-build furniture

Modularity

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Colour me happy by Austin Maynard Architects

4PM self build chaisse by Massproductions

PolyRoom by Cutwork

Stack Storage Boxes by Kristina Dam Studio

Evolving Tapestry Textile by Sheila Hicks

Architecture

Zero emission villages designed for low energy and water consumption as well as low waste generation.

Pavilions in a natural landscape invite people to experience the atmosphere and beauty of nature. With transparent glass as a construction material, the place blends into the landscape.

Climate-sensitive architecture responds to the local climate, the temperature, direction and strength of the sun, wind, rainfall and humidity.

Houses can have different levels for different moments of the day.

Houses are constructed to be quiet, protective shelters with ancient building structures inspired by nature and trees’ living structures.

Zero emission

Climate sensitive

Shelters

Ancient structures

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Anyang Art Park, photo by Harry Cunningham

Qaammat Fjeld pavilion by Konstantin Ikonomidis

Castle house by Tezuka Architects

Xylem Pavilion by Kéré Architecture

Trenezia Zero-Emission Village by Waugh Thistleton Architects

Technology

Land-poor countries can use floating solar power plants to harvest renewable energy. Flexible solar cells can be adjusted to local circumstances for climate neutral, renewable energy. Flexible, compact wind turbines, eco-friendly design for urban energy-harvesting.

Upgradeable and repairable devices. Laptops that can be customised and assembled with options for memory, storage, WiFi, and software.

Graphene is established as the thinnest, strongest, and most conductive material. Lithium-ion batteries can hold a large amount of charge in a small volume.

Ten times thinking strategy focuses on how each component of an appliance can be improved to increase longevity and best performance.

Renewable energy

Repair devices

Flexible wind turbines

Longevity

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Floating solar panels by Hanwha Solutions Corp

SOLO - 6W panel by infinity PV

The Framework upgradeable laptop

Carbon neutral batteries by Better Batteries

O-Wind Turbine by Nicolas Orellana and Yaseen Nooran

Beast B10 Blender by Beast

Mobility

Transport becomes a power station on wheels that enables the rider to be completely independent and off-grid. Small and multi-functional electric transporters maximise societal impact and minimise environmental impact.

Combining innovative ultra-lightweight materials such as highly recyclable, lower carbon aluminium with innovative construction methods.

Mobility moves away from individually owned cars and bicycles to new possibilities for public transport, for instance, via cable cars or multi-person and freight bicycles.

Mobility vehicles can be constructed via 3d printing that uses recycled plastic as a material. Form follows CO2.