Toyota Lecture Series: Making Better Things: Daniel Liden
About the Event
Rather than waiting for the circular economy to be defined for us, designers are in a unique position to proactively shape it. This lecture by Daniel Liden, a Copenhagen-based designer and author of “Better Things: Materials for Sustainable Design,” takes alternative materials as the starting point and explores the many opportunities that they present in terms of replacing conventional virgin and non-renewable materials in contemporary industrial design.
Alternative materials have a huge role to play in reducing the environmental impact of products, and Daniel’s lecture will cover a range of approaches to designing with these materials without losing sight of delivering valuable, durable, and accessible user experiences, including an introduction to exciting new work on circular materials by CCS students that will be on display during Detroit Month of Design.
There will be a Toyota Lecture on this topic featuring Daniel Liden on Friday, 4/18, at the CCS Taubman Center, directly followed by an opening reception in the Valade Family Gallery for a pop-up exhibition of sustainable design work created by CCS students in tandem with Daniel Liden during his residency.
