02 / The story
The story
The exhibition follows plastic across more than 150 years: first hailed as an alternative to natural resources, then a foundation of mass production and disposable culture, and now a source of pressing environmental harm. Design sits at the centre of that history, as the discipline that brought plastic into everyday life and the one now asked to imagine alternatives, lower production and consumption, and reuse. The MAAT edition followed earlier presentations at Vitra Design Museum in 2022 and V&A Dundee in 2022–23.