RESOURCES

In their 2002, architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart presented an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste.

Suggested by: Antonazzo Matteo

La produzione e il consumo di beni e servizi hanno superato la capacità della biosfera e della geosfera di assorbire senza danni irreversibili le trasformazioni che questo sistema determina. La consapevolezza del problema ambientale ha seguito un percorso da valle a monte: dalla cura dell'inquinamento, all'intervento sui processi produttivi che lo generano, alla riprogettazione dei prodotti e/o servizi per giungere alla discussione e al riorientamento dei comportamenti sociali. Questo percorso ci racconta che è necessario intervenire in termini progettuali e che la responsabilità e il ruolo del design sono cresciuti negli anni, richiedendo scenari di riferimento, conoscenza e strumenti nuovi.

Suggested by: Antonazzo Matteo

Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

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Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country―or even halfway across the world―to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.

Suggested by: Antonazzo Matteo

When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment.

Suggested by: Antonazzo Matteo

The book "It's Not Easy Being Green: Two Designers Exploring Sustainability Worldwide" is a publication by Paula Raché and art van Bezooijen that brings together six months of making new friends, photographing local impressions and collecting materials. Together with almost 60 designers, entrepreneurs and change-makers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan they are sharing personal experiences, project examples and local culture to inspire and enable a more sustainable future.

Suggested by:Aart Van Bezooyen

is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.

Suggested by:Antonazzo Matteo

Varda's interviews glean in France in all forms, from those harvesting the fields after the harvest to those sifting through the bins of Paris.

Suggested by:Antonazzo Matteo

"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic is almost impossible to make from scratch.

Suggested by:Antonazzo Matteo

U-Joints is an international research project and exhibition series on the theme of connections in design and architecture curated by Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu.

Suggested by: Antonazzo Matteo

A must- have for professionals at the cutting edge of design, Radical Matter: Revolutionary Materials and Design for a Sustainable Future presents the ten “Big Ideas” that will shape and inform the choices of materials, design methods, and manufacturing processes made by designers in the years to come.

Suggested by: Antonazzo Matteo