The contemporary world is drowning in textile waste, and the pace of mass production is unsustainable. What happens to the places we live in when we produce more than we can consume? Wasted Waste, an interdisciplinary installation by students of the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), addresses this question at this year’s Milano Design Week, as part of the Alcova platform. Through a performative exhibition, the artists draw visitors directly into the narrative, conveying the inescapable atmosphere of repetitive labor in one of Czechia’s largest textile sorting facilities. It is here – amid the untouched landscape of the Broumov region – that the consequences of global consumption quietly accumulate.
