{"id":9514,"date":"2024-02-10T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/?p=9514"},"modified":"2024-02-15T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:53:00","slug":"plastic-remaking-our-world-has-now-opened-at-the-national-museum-of-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/plastic-remaking-our-world-has-now-opened-at-the-national-museum-of-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Plastic: Remaking Our World’ has now opened at the National Museum of Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Plastics have shaped our daily lives like no other material. From food containers to electronic devices, from furniture to cars, from fashion to prefab buildings. With their almost limitless malleability, versatility, and economic production, plastics have spurred the imagination of designers and architects for decades. While they have been associated with convenience, progress, and even revolution, in recent years, they have lost their utopian appeal. Plastics are omnipresent \u2013 often as waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving away from a linear economy towards a circular one will require a combination of different strategies and approaches: mechanical, chemical, and biological recycling; a shift from oil-based plastics to plastics that are based on renewable resources and are biodegradable; reduction of single-use plastics. Lastly, legislation will need to support all these developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vitra Design Museum devotes a major exhibition to the utopian appeal of plastics and to the current challenges that need to be tackled by design, science, and politics. The exhibition ‘Plastic: Remaking Our World’ examines the rise of plastic during the course of the twentieth century, its present ecological consequences as well as current research and design projects towards a new, sustainable use of the material in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition will be on display in Singapore till 23 June 2024. Afterwards, it\u2019ll move on to Korea and be on show at the Hyundai Motorstudio Busan from August 2024 till May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n