www.dezeen.com: Is it possible to stage a trade fair without producing excessive waste? Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson explores eight approaches that were all on show at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair.
The trade show format is increasingly under scrutiny, with environmental concerns prompting many to reconsider the material cost of building large exhibition stands that are only used for a few days.
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One of the main reasons why I committed to Carnegie Mellon is because they offer in additional major and environmental and ability studies. I’m pursuing that now because climate justice is some thing that’s really important to me and I want to be able to make the very more sustainable industry. I have previously never thought about how furniture could be bad for the environment until I read about how IKEA makes fast furniture like clothing, stores, make fast fashion. Their furniture is easy to assemble, but it’s not made to last so consumer is end up having to buy more of it leading to more waste. So I was really interested in reading about how Stockholm furniture is cutting down waste. One thing I found interesting is that they made the exhibit more sustainable, as well as the furniture more sustainable, which isn’t something I had thought about at art galleries.
I do not know much about the specific niche activity of furniture design shows, so it was both interesting to learn a bit more about an industry I don’t know much about, as well as learn about how that industry is working to prove itself. I’ve never thought about it much before, but I can definitely see how much waste could theoretically be produced by such a large event with every company setting up its own stand. In a place like Ikea, it might make more sense to set up a mini set with walls since it's so permanent, but there isn’t much of a need for the traditional massive stands. One possible solution that particularly jumped out at me from the article was the last one, keeping it simple with aluminum trusses. I really liked how the uniform truss system across the entire space looked next to the wide variety of unique furniture, and I felt like it made the entire space quite interestingly cohesive. I also imagine that as long as there’s a place to store it, that might be one of the most easily reusable solutions since any company could use it as there’s no specific branding.
I enjoyed reading how the different companies found ways to make installation statements with less materials. I like when companies or in this case conventions find ways to produce less waste each year. However, I think it’s kind of funny that you see news like this all the time from different companies but the real people who should have to worry about their carbon footprint are the huge corporations who are the leading cause in their manufacturing and production systems for climate change. I think everyone should make whatever effort they can to reduce their carbon footprint–but it’s like the small things we do add up over a long time, whereas if the companies that are the main cause for the rapid changes in the climate made small changes they could add up over a very short period of time. But yeah the eco friendly furniture convention is pretty cool to see.
When I first read this title I was very confused but I am genuinely very impressed after reading the article. Trade shows are one of the things that I never thought would be able to run without waste. While there wasn’t 0 waste, the mere fact they were able to cut down at all is extremely impressive for this kind of event. It also speaksDial theater could possibly follow suit in the future which would be really very important considering how extraordinarily wasteful theater is as it stands currently. because the options are either to store everything after it is used or throw it in the garbage and maybe things like this could help avoid having to throw everything in the garbage always. I'm always very happy to see a group trying to fix the wastefulness of events like this and help improve wasteful of other events along the way
I enjoy reading about new eco-friendly practices and innovations. The state of our environment is always in the back of my mind, particularly when I’m doing things like driving or recycling or something that has a big impact on it, but specifically for theater it’s really insane the amount of resources a show will consume and trash at the end of its run. I wish that we could find a way to be more environmentally friendly, but unfortunately most methods ultimately require either more time or money, which is something we never seem to have enough of. Keeping more set pieces as stock would be worth it in my opinion. Even donation would be so much better than throwing away thousands of dollars of wood after every show. I hope that eventually we can adopt environmental practices from another industry like this. Once theaters start adopting new policies, I don’t think it’ll take long for it to catch on.
This makes me really happy to see. As someone who is pursuing an outside career in environmental sustainability studies, it is incredibly important for me to see other people working to solve some of our waste habits. Things like theater and Furniture tend to be extremely wasteful, especially in their packaging. I'm glad that this furniture fair was able to cut down on their waist, and make the best use of the space and time they had. Something that reminds me of is the packaging of CMU dining food. all of it is industrially compostable, but not many students know that and many just throw away their boxes in the landfill. I think it is important to recognize the wastefulness of the habit, because that is the only thing that you can do before you can fix it. I also think it is incredibly important once you recognize it, to move forward and determine how you can solve this problem and make everything less wasteful and lean towards more reusable .
I love efforts like this to cut down on waste and excessive materials in large scale events and entertainment. I think that focusing efforts on sustainability is supremely important, and I think that as theatre makers we need to think long and hard about what we’re doing and what can be repurposed when we’re working on new productions. So much of what we make can be repurposed into other things if we try hard enough, and there are times when I’ve seen people in this industry be extremely wasteful simply because they feel that they can, and they don’t see anything wrong with it. Especially for things on such a massive scale, it can be easy to just ignore sustainability and get newer things. But I truly believe that with even a little bit of effort, such large scale productions can make a dramatic difference. Every little bit counts
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