Reanim furnitures (5.5 designers)

The 5.5 French Designers have created the “Reanim” series of furnitures, which is collection of “prothesis of injured objects” .

http://www.cinqcinqdesigners.com/images/imaj/FTP/2004_Reanim/reanim.pdf

Background Stories Coffea project (Arlene Birt)

Coffee containers which show the back-story of the coffee’s production in terms as it relates to social and environmental impacts, based on real informations and datas from the companies. 

http://www.arlenebirt.com/blog/

Droog Life Cycle Tee-shirt (Arlen Birt)

A t-shirt that tells its own story. The t-shirts tags are cut from the inside and stitched with the story of the t-shirt’s own life-cycle in term of production and distribution. 

http://www.arlenebirt.com/blog/

Repair Manifesto (Platform21)

The design collective “Plateform 21” has even created a manifesto that celebrates the process of repairing. They consider it as the ultimate form of sustainable design because it doesn’t consume any energy and their aim is to reintroduce it in human reflex as something creative and fun.