“Today everyone with an iPhone knows that it would be absurd to distinguish what has been designed from what has been planned, calculated, arrayed, arranged, packed, packaged, defined, projected, tinkered with, written down in code, disposed of, and so on. From now on, “to design” could mean equally any or all of those verbs.”

- Latour B. Designing Cornwall, 2008

Appetite For Destruction is a one-week workshop that challenges the notion of design by embracing planned obsolescence, historically an instrument of capital growth, as a means to develop objects that disintegrate into nature through a single-use approach to cradle-to-cradle design. 

The course embeds design within its material origins, use, and afterlife while exploring new organic materialities. In turn, challenging the role the growing ubiquity of single-use design objects in our daily life can play in mitigating the current climate and biodiversity emergency.

The result of the material studies concluded in a performative dinner where the designs were tested by dining on them to then dissolving them back into the soil. 

Workshop at —> IED Institute of European Design Barcelona

Year —> 2023

Tutor —> Caterina Miralles 

Students —> Yunchen Chang, Aya Charakaoui, Amanuel Fikre, Maria Osk Ingvadóttir, Rosa Dan Johansen Porláksdóttir, Jooeun Jung, Carina Kalweit, Adbelrahman Kamar, Naiara Suyang Lara Martínez, Hugo Martin Sanchez, Madina Salamova, Camila Serrano, Su Bin Shin, Maria Strybe, Soraya-Evita Stussi, Rugile Valiukaite, Mariia Zlatova.