Sustainable re-industrialization by translating avant-garde strategies into mainstream production
Driving the climate transition requires a shift from centrally planned and implemented to decentralized architectures distributed among federated nodes operating in a relative autonomy with respect to central authorities. Regenerative and renewable modes of production rely on distributed networks that operate in an interconnected but independent fashion. The result is not only greater resilience but a multiplication of creative business opportunities and realistic scenarios for the sustainable scaling of creative business models. Cases might include investigations into circular aesthetics of new materials in artificial biology systems; repurposing place in post-conceptual art and design; digital knitting as a counter-concept to “fast fashion”; fermentation and metabolic processes across disciplines.