Projects
The Algae Sequin Dress
In Collaboration with Phillip Lim
The Algae Sequin Dress: a Charlotte McCurdy collaboration with Phillip Lim. Now part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after being exhibited in“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
After Ancient Sunlight
Algae-Plastic Raincoat
After Ancient Sunlight investigates how present-tense photosynthesis— rather than fossilized photosynthetically captured carbon — can serve as a basis for contemporary material culture.
De-Industrial Design
Designing Carbon Negative Futures
“Sustainability,” as a goal, seeks equilibrium; “regeneration” seeks healing. The difference is more than semantic—it is thermodynamic. In a world already saturated with atmospheric CO₂, neutrality is insufficient.
