According to a new exhibition at the Design Museum, the most ubiquitous hallmark of the Anthropocene is not a game-changing material, nor the mastery of technology. It’s trash. “We are arguably living in the waste age,” says Justin McGuirk, the London museum’s chief curator, who has spent the last three years rifling through rubbish with co-curator Gemma Curtin to put together this timely show.
“The production of waste is absolutely central to our way of life, a fundamental part of how the global economy operates. We wanted to show how design is deeply complicit in the waste problem – and also best placed to address it.”..
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/01/waste-age-exhibition-design-museum
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