Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure

Katie Treggiden is a craft and design journalist with almost twenty years experience in the creative industries. She regularly contributes to publications such as The Guardian, Crafts Magazine, and Design Milk. This is her fifth book and third for Ludion, after the success of Urban Potters (2017) and Weaving (2018). She has a Masters in the History of Design at the University of Oxford. Glenn Adamson is a curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history and contemporary art. Currently Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, he has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design; Head of Research at the V&A. Adamson¿s publications include Fewer Better Things (2019); Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan-Wilson); The Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007). He contributes regularly to Art in America, Crafts, Disegno, frieze, among other publications. He was the co-curator of Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years at MAD (2016); Beazley Designs of the Year 2017, at the Design Museum, London; and Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, at the Yale Center for British Art (2017). His latest book Craft: An American History will published by Bloomsbury in early 2021.

This book offers a glimpse into the future of the circular economy, with work by exciting designers and makers from around the world

Introduction ¿ Fashion Waste ¿ Food Waste ¿ Industrial Waste ¿ Plastic Waste ¿ Domestic Waste ¿ Bibliography