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Sustainable design – honestly considered.

Bamboo stools, recycled materials, green labels: sustainability in design is often presented as an ideal. But what does it actually look like in practice?

Laura Kluge, founder of Studio Kluge and designer specialising in interior, product and spatial design, presents real projects with real decisions. For example: borrowing concrete slabs from a local manufacturer, using them as exhibition architecture, then returning them. Material consumption: zero. Or: instead of building a space that will eventually be torn down – a flexible system that grows and adapts.

The talk answers questions many people have but rarely ask out loud: Why isn't wood automatically sustainable? Why can metal be better than expected? And why is recycled plastic often greenwashing?

At the heart of it all is one principle: Design for Disassembly. What isn't glued together can be taken apart. What can be taken apart can be recycled. This isn't theory – it's a design decision.

And yes: it's also about money. When is sustainable design cheaper? When does it cost more? And what does it actually achieve?

Studio Kluge is a Leipzig-based design studio for contemporary interior, product design and scenography. Founded with a clear conviction: spaces should work for the people who use them. Laura Kluge deliberately seeks out production partners beyond the traditional furniture industry and tests the limits of unconventional materials – resource conservation as a logical consequence.