From Flint to Footprint 1: Making

FROM FLINT TO FOOTPRINT

How to 'make' a sustainable society, how to learn from the past and how to get grip on rationales such life cycle assessments and footprints calculations? Is that possible at all? Based on the conviction that the current questions that require solutions in our society today can be solved through collaboration and mutual understanding, guests and audience from various parties are explicitly brought together and invited: Designers & Makers (producers) , Users & Shakers (policymakers & trailblazers). In public conversations at three pop-up locations, changes in our ecological, social and economic footprints are discussed by various stakeholders in the current footprint debates who all play a role in shaping the upcoming transitions. The conversations are moderated by Ned Kaar.

SALON 1: Making

The first salon concentrates on the role of craft & production in low-carbon, sustainable futures. Within global value chains, what has happened to the idea of a local market and local maker? What can practices rooted in history and local production teach us about sustainable practice and living in the present? How might a return to local production fare as a response to increased costs of transport and demands for traceability? GUESTS MAKING SALON: • Eric van Hove - founder of Fenduq, crafts studio in Marrakesh www.fenduq.com • Lex van Lith - director of MAKE Eindhoven, playground for creatieve an artistic makers www.makeeindhoven.nl • Frank Hemeltjen, Advisor Heritage Care at Knowledgecenter for Immaterial Dutch Heritage / organisor Crafts Lab for Nederlands Openluchtmuseum www.immaterieelerfgoed.nl/en/ambachtenlab • Stijn Roodnat, founder Label/Breed - an initiative focused on the development of sustainable and innovative interior objects by establishing collaborations between designers and manufacturers. www.labelbreed.nl

ORGA

Annemartine van Kesteren is curator of the exhibition The Decay Economy in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in 2020. The presentation about a fossilfree economy took place entirely online due to the corona pandemic! Ineke Hans organized the London Salons in 2015-17, exploring 'The Future of Furniture design & the changing position of the designer'. She worked with recycled materials and low-waste production over 25 years. In 2021 REX, the first Dutch deposit chair was launched, up for the Dutch Design Awards, Dezeen Awards and Bundespreis Ecodesign 2022. Ned Kaar is MA alumni Contextual Design of Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) 2021 and producer of the Intergenerational Graduation Show in Milan in 2022, celebrating 75 years of DAE. As part of this, he conducted interviews and research into the network of the DAE. In 2020 he was moderator for 'The Arena', DAE’s platform for design dialogues.