The Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art features projects that repurpose waste products. Here are eight highlights including vases sculpted from PVC pipes. 

The exhibit comprises over 30 projects that reimagine discarded materials and byproducts – sourced from manufacturing, agriculture, food and human waste – including building materials, home furnishings and fashion accessories.

 

the curator Judith Hoos Fox said:"What we are seeing is designers on a global scale are looking at waste materials and waste streams and seeing them not as something to turn our backs on, but really thinking of them as a quarry for future work." "We really hope that this is part of a 'sea change'," Hoos Fox added, "that visitors will start seeing in the waste that surrounds us possibilities and the larger view is an awareness of the fragility of the world, the environment in which we live."

 

In addition to all of the objects, the display stands are also made from recycled materials. Eindhoven studio Dutch Invertuals created the fibreboard displays using cotton and wool cut-offs from textile manufacturer Kvadrat.

Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined will be on exhibition at the SMoCA until 17 May 2020.