Islands: Material Mapping

Have you ever walked around an exhibition and wondered what happens to everything when the show is over? To the exhibits, the beautifully-built walls, plinths and cases? Where does all this stuff go?

Over 30% of global carbon emissions are produced by construction. To meet national and international climate targets, the UK therefore needs to radically rethink the materials with which it builds.

Restore: Material Mapping attempts to make visible some of the journeys of the materials used in Design Researchers in Residence: Restore.

Museums are changing. They can be catalysts, proactively supporting a just and sustainable future.

“The first question any design researcher with an innovative idea encounters is, how do you scale that up?”