This presentation reviews the environmental impact of printing and paper production, with an emphasis on thinking through challenges of minimizing the environmental consequences of commercial book production. Sustainability is considered from a holistic perspective, providing insight into the various factors that go into making and distributing a book.
Image: Karel Martens: Re-Printed Matter (2020).
Learn how to apply a climate-conscious approach to every stage of exhibition planning, from design and fabrication through installation and deinstallation. This overview shares green alternatives to conventional materials and contacts to suppliers who can provide them. It also covers tips on making use of local resources and sharing to reduce and reuse materials within local arts ecosystems.
Image: Exhibitions design coordinator works with floor models, photo: Adrian Martinez for SFMOMA.
Hear from experts in the field about making responsible material choices in the arts. Kraczon and Fortmeyer share a wide range of topics, from California legislation on embodied carbon emissions to recycling myths, and how art and design professionals can transition to a circular model of production and consumption.
Image: Refuse and reduce plastic materials in your practice, courtesy Kim Kraczon.
Transportation of artwork is often an inevitable part of exhibition planning and art commerce, but cutting emissions and waste while moving artworks around the world is not only possible but necessary. For this learning session, Harker discusses some of the ongoing emerging efforts to make art transportation more sustainable and introduce a range of steps shippers and clients can take together to minimize the sector's impact on the planet.