Our fellow Abdulrazaq Awofeso is showing his newly commissioned work in a group show 'Waste Age: What Can Design Do?' at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK

Waste Age: What can design do? is a group exhibition focused on a new generation of designers who are rethinking our relationship to everyday things. From fashion to food, electronics to construction, even packaging - finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of clean materials and a circular economy could point the way out of the Waste Age.

The exhibition tells the story of the environmental crisis and marks MAC’s first collaboration with the Design Museum to highlight the current crisis and design’s role in the problem. It also explores how design can transform our waste into valuable resources, promote new ways of living with the Earth and not from it, and where there is no such thing as waste. Divided into three topics, this exhibition explores what lies beyond our current toxic waste infrastructures, exploring the environmental, social, and geopolitical forces at work.

The exhibition will feature a new sculptural commission inspired by clothes waste markets in Nigeria by Birmingham-based artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso.

Waste Age is a touring exhibition by the Design Museum, London and curated by Gemma Curtin and Justin McGuirk. MAC is the only tour venue in the UK.

You can see the exhibition at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK until 23 Feb 2025

More info here