Engaged design in Milan
- Sustainability isn’t trendy anymore.” During my stay in Milan i get to hear this phrase several times. The first time I only get surprised and dismiss it. I know better. There are so many designers working toward a more sustainable production and consumption today – compare it with five years ago, it’s a world of difference.
Take for example Design For Us, a design studio showing a collection of furniture made in collaboration with brain scientists with the intention to make patients recover quicker through a friendly hospital environment. The chairs and table are soft and light in a Nordic way, it is only when looking closer at them that it is evident that the ideas behind this project go deep.
- We wanted to keep the history of the past, so we reused the old chairs from the hospital and gave them a new life, says Kristina Sahlqvist one of the designers behind Design For Us.