IMPACT
Exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion (2024)
Cooper Hewitt
Nature Triennial (2019)
The Design Museum, London
Waste Age: What Can Design Do? (2021-2022)
Genesis / Hyundai National TV Campaigns
Chasing Butterflies, Legacy, Details Matter, Keep Beginning
Talks
TEDxBerkshires
De-Industrial Design
Cooper Hewitt
Nature Salons: Materials of the Anthropocene
Smithsonian Earth Optimism Summit
Sustainable Energy & Human Creativity: Hosted by Ali Velshi
Carbon Feel and Plastic Tell
New Museum - New Inc
Winter Demo Day: After Ancient Sunlight
Terra Carta Design Lab
Haptic Futures: Sustainable Materials in Design Innovation. NYC Climate Week
Clever
Ep. 224 Charlotte McCurdy is Charting the Path to a Very Desirable Bio-Based Future
Parsons Healthy Materials Lab Symposium
Carbon Material Health: Design Frontiers, (Nov. 14-15)
Sour Studio - What’s Wrong With
What Are We Actually Trying To Sustain?
Biofutures Biodesign
In Conversation
Press
New York Times
Post Consumption Future at the Cooper Hewitt
Financial Post
The Future of Fashion Grows in a Pond
Bloomberg
Vice
Seaweed Clothes Can Save the Planet
The Guardian
Making Carbon Neutral Clothing Out of Algae
Publications
Better Things
Materials for Sustainable Product Design
Daniel Linden
Circular Materials
Innovation and Reuse in Design and Architecture
Joe Gibbs
Awards
2025 The Outstanding Instructor Award, The Biodesign Challenge
2025 Top Eight Finalist Team, Kerra, The Biodesign Challenge,
2025 25 for 2025 World Design Congress Trailblazer, The Design Council
2025 Grum Visiting Artist, The Williston Northampton School
2024 Eco Conscious Emerging Tech Designer of the Year 2024 - (USA). Technology Innovator Awards, Innovation in Business
2023 Blue Zone Badge, representing Arizona State University UN COP28 (awarded)
2023 “Best 100” Global Sustainable Association & Kyoto Global Design Awards 2023
2023 Professor of Impact Award, The Design School, HIDA, ASU
2022 Most Innovative Emerging Tech Designer (USA), Style and Apparel Awards 2022, LUXlife
2022 50 People You Need to Know this Earth Day, Dezeen
2020 Emerging Designer, National Design Awards, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (nominee)
2020 Emerging Designer of the Year, Longlist, Dezeen
2020 Future 50, Inverse Magazine
2019 The Linda Tischler Memorial Innovation by Design Award, Annual Emerging Designer Award, FastCompany
2019 Experimental Category, Winner, Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards
2019 PopTech Fellow, PopTech Conference
2019 Nature, Art and Habitat Residency, Taleggio Valley, Bergamo ITALY (won)
2018 The Graduate Edison Invention Award, Industrial Design, RISD
And More
Patent
granted US20220204653A1 “Carbon-Negative Bioplastic”
Inventor: Charlotte McCurdy. Assignee: Charlotte McCurdy Research LLC.
Publication 8/19/2025
Permanent Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art