Rethinking the Status Quo: A World Without Plastic

Starting with a guided tour of the thought-provoking Plastic: Remaking Our World, curator Anniina Koivu, will lead an engaging discussion with sustainability advocates Constança Entrudo and Luisa Kahlfeldt on the current state of affairs and the responsibilities of various stakeholders in shaping a sustainable future.

Anniina Koivu, renowned curator and sustainable design expert, will share her insights into the exhibition, highlighting the thought-provoking works that encourage visitors to rethink their relationship with plastic. Constança Entrudo, a visionary fashion designer known for creating sustainable fabrics, will discuss her innovative approaches to challenging traditional textile-making processes, offering alternative solutions to plastic-based materials. Luisa Kahlfeldt, an award-winning industrial designer and creator of Sumo – a sustainable baby nappy using innovative wood-based textiles – will explore how design thinking can contribute to reducing plastic waste and creating sustainable products.

Anniina Koivu is a copywriter, curator, consultant, and design teacher based in Milan and Lausanne. She works across a number of fields, from curatorship to art direction, product development, and editorial and research projects. Her clients include Kvadrat, Arita 2016, Iittala, HDW, Vitra, Phi Foundation, and the Shorefast Foundation, where she is design director of the Smaller House Furniture collection for the Fogo Island Workshops, in Canada. In 2018, she co-founded U-Joints, a research project and exhibition series that looks at the connections between architecture and design. U-Joints — A taxonomy of connections was published in 2022. As part of Supersalone curatorial team for Milano Salone del Mobile 2021, Anniina developed The Lost Graduation Show, a major retrospective on graduation projects from around the world. She has written and edited numerous publications, including the monograph Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Works (Phaidon, 2011) and Vico Magistretti: Stories of Objects (ECAL/Triest, 2020). In 2021, she founded the knitwear brand Koivu. She is Head of Master Theory at ECAL/University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Constança Entrudo graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Textile Design. She has worked as a designer for Balmain, Peter Pilotto, and Marques’Almeida. Based and manufactured in Portugal, the design studio and brand's core signature transcends trends. Constança offers unique handcrafted clothes and fabrics, imbued with a fearlessly fluid attitude, re- inventing classics, and unexpected details while embodying youth with modernity. Generating sustainable fabrics that challenge the usual processes of textile making, Constança creates with absolute freedom from pre-existing design frameworks, using trial-and-error methods to arrive at the label’s exclusive fabric technologies. She held her first catwalk show in 2019 at Lisbon Fashion Week and quickly gained notoriety for her deconstructed woven fabrics that result from a process which involves bonded recycled polyester threads. Known for combining handmade sustainable fabrics and bold graphic prints, Constança has attracted attention from the likes of Suzy Menkes, who cited her fabrics as “high quality of handwork” on British Vogue and many other press. In little over four years, Constança Entrudo has presented her collections in London, Paris, and Lisbon Fashion Weeks. 

Luisa Kahlfeldt is an award-winning industrial designer and creative consultant based in Berlin, Germany. She is the founder of Sumo Baby, a creative start up that specializes in future-proof baby care products that elevate daily rituals and are kind to the environment. Prior to launching Sumo Baby, Luisa worked as an industrial designer and product developer for Barber Osgerby in London and Konstantin Grcic Design in Berlin. She graduated with an BA (Hons) from Central Staint Martins and completed her Master’s degree at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her work has been awarded with a Red Dot Design Award, the Swiss James Dyson Award, and the German Sustainability Award.