Unwrapping the Future: Designing for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Join us on November 18 at 7 p.m. for an inspiring evening exploring sustainability and design, which will include an exclusive screening of Seaweed Stories and an inspiring panel discussion.
Executive-produced by ArtCenter Trustee Phillip Sarofim, this documentary reveals how this often-overlooked marine organism may hold answers to some of humanity’s most concerning challenges—including replacing plastic.
Seaweed Stories will be introduced by the film’s executive producers Phillip Sarofim, Founder of Trousdale Ventures and ArtCenter Trustee, and Emy Kane, managing director of Lonely Whale, an organization dedicated to preventing plastic waste from entering the ocean. The special screening will be followed by a panel of experts from ArtCenter and beyond, including film director Jake Sumner; Julia Marsh, co-founder + CEO of Sway, a material innovation startup featured in the film, which won first place in the TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize powered by Lonely Whale; ArtCenter Associate Professor Kristine Upesleja, an expert in biomaterials and biofabrication; alum Margaux Reynolds (BS 19), senior design strategist at Designworks, a BMW Group Company; and moderated by Jieon Choi (BS 24), student ambassador, Engineering for One Planet grant project.
You’re invited to an inspiring evening with design visionaries as they discuss forging new pathways into a more sustainable future.
Limited Seating Available
Please register by November 13
Event Location
ArtCenter College of Design
Hillside Campus
1700 Lida St.
Pasadena, CA, 91103
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About the Film
Narrated by Forest Whitaker, Seaweed Stories is a vibrant, global look at the wonders of seaweed, and some of the extraordinary stories and characters whose lives have been entangled by this often overlooked marine organism which may hold answers to some of humanity’s biggest challenges. Seaweed Stories includes insights from a Silicon Valley startup creating plastic alternatives from macroalgae, to the Indigenous Shinnecock Kelp Farmers using seaweed to prove their sovereign right to coastal land, and a scientist in South Korea supporting seaweeds’ sexual reproduction to create new species that can withstand the effects of a changing climate.
Presented by:
Seaweed Stories is presented by Lonely Whale, an organization working to prevent plastic waste from entering the ocean, in association with conservation organization Re:wild.
