Abstract

Chick was a curatorial advisor on the 'Sustainable Futures: Can design make a difference' exhibition content. In addition, to advising on how the travelling exhibition structure could be designed and constructed to be environmentally considered. The priority was the design of an exhibition structure that was lightweight and would take up minimum space when transported, as well as specifying ec-materials.

The exhibition showed the changing role of the designer and revealed how design can make a difference. The exhibition profiles the latest developments in sustainable design, as well as offering a fresh platform to new products which encourage us to look at our own use of the world's resources. There were five themed areas: Cities, Energy and Economics, Materiality, Food and Creative Citizens. A sustainable future was shown in the way of energy conservation, food production and growth, materiality, recycling an resourcefulness/effective design and structure of cities as a whole.

The Design Museum also tested new and better ways of running an exhibition, from the use of renewable materials through to the painting of stands with eco-friendly paint.