Sustainable Futures: finding solutions at the Design Museum

Can design make a difference? It’s a question the Design Museum London is addressing with the exhibition: Sustainable Futures.

The focus of the show is twofold: to explore the latest developments in design in relation to sustainability, and to make us think about our own consumption habits.

Organised into five themes: cities, energy and economies, food, materiality and creative citizen, the products and architecture projects on display range from Fosters + Partners Masdar Development, billed as the first carbon neutral city in Abu Dhabi, to the Energy AWARE Clock that monitors the energy consumption of the home.

Highlights include an advanced goldfish bowl - Local River by Mathieu Lehanneur - that functions as a ‘refrigerator-aquarium’ for the home, breeding freshwater fish and growing herbs at the same time, Puma's innovative approach to packaging, and a fashion collection that reuses Ministry of Defense parachutes.

The exhibition explores the nature of design - and our response to it – for more environmentally friendly objects that have a longer outlook.