Aesthetics of Sustainability - Material Experiments in Product Design

Aesthetics of Sustainability - Material Experiments in Product Design

The result of this research-through-design project is a series of fourteen case studies involving the development of materials made from textile waste, recycled paper, rubber granulate or vegetable fibers such as algae, rice husks, hemp, flax and wood. The resulting new materials can be shaped, pressed, woven or welded. A selection of these materials will be presented through experiments and prototypes of products.

With contributions from: Christophe Guberan, Chris Lefteri, Ala Tannir and graduates of the Master’s Program Product Design of École cantonale d`art de Lausanne (ECAL).

Thilo Alex Brunner is a Swiss product designer based in Zurich and co-founder of several design firms. He served a ten-year term as lecturer at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d`art de Lausanne and chaired the master’s degree program Product Design until 2018.