Fri, Sep 18
|College for Creative Studies
Making Better Things with Daniel Liden: Toyota Lecture Series
Exhibition & Reception for the Sustainable Material Showcase with Daniel Liden and CCS Students
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
College for Creative Studies, Taubman Center, 460 W Baltimore St, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
About the event
A public lecture on sustainable product design alongside a pop-up exhibition exploring sustainable materials.
Rather than waiting for the circular economy to be defined for us, designers are in a unique position to proactively shape it. This lecture by Daniel Liden, a Copenhagen-based designer and author of Better Things: Materials for Sustainable Design, takes alternative materials as the starting point and explores the many opportunities that they present in terms of replacing conventional virgin and non-renewable materials in contemporary industrial design.
Alternative materials have a huge role to play in reducing the environmental impact of products, and Daniel’s lecture will cover a range of approaches to designing with these materials without losing sight of delivering valuable, durable, and accessible user experiences, including an introduction to exciting new work on circular materials by CCS students that will be on display during Detroit Month of Design.
The lecture will be directly followed…