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Reclaiming Design

James David Morgan wrote this post at 5:15 pm on July 11th, 2007.

A few weeks ago, Inhabitat put together an event about recycling and reuse in design, called Reclaiming Design. Inspired by the recent groundswell in recycling (their words, not ours) and by past artists who used found and re-appropriated materials, they sought conversation with recent artists and designers who had achieved some level of success by using chiefly recycled materials.

From their website:

“This event at HauteGREEN in New York was a big success, thanks to the thought-provoking design and insightful discussion from Dwell Editor-in-Chief Sam Grawe and designers Carlos Salgado of Scrapile, Tejo Remy of Droog fame, and Matt Gagnon. Ourconversation touched on a variety of issues surrounding the concepts and processes behind using reclaimed materials in different scales of design, and its implications for both environmental sustainability as well as more conceptual and cultural themes.

For those of you who are really into this stuff, the full-length video of the entire discussion can be found here.”

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