The Stedelijk draws attention to the greatest challenge of our time: the climate crisis.

The exhibition It's Our F***ing Backyard shows that designers can make a significant difference: through innovative experiments or by drawing on local knowledge, they encourage us to look at materials in a radically different way, offering design that is responsible as well as aesthetic, comfortable, and accessible. The eighty selected projects from designers and companies around the world provide an overview of various strategies for achieving better material use. The exhibition also explores how the depletion of the earth is linked to colonial practices, which are still being continued by some multinationals today.

Ineke Hans, Rex, 2021, the first Dutch deposit chair, made from recycled polyamide (old office furniture, fishing nets, carpet, and industrial waste), coll. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift of the manufacturer Circuform

Link to the website: IT’S OUR F***ING BACKYARD (stedelijk.nl)

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