Passionate about sustainability
In addition to our passion for creative exploration, NorthernLight holds the issues of sustainability close to heart. We believe in striving to make projects, but also ourselves, future proof. We hope to contribute to societal challenges through memorable exhibits that resonate with visitors. We strive to raise awareness on sustainability through the subject matter of our experiences and practice sustainability ourselves through environmentally conscious design methods.
Our aim
With sustainability as the main subject matter, many of our projects aim to do three things: educate, engage and encourage. We believe that by educating our visitors about sustainability, we can emotionally engage them in this issue, which will ultimately encourage them to step into the world to address this concern. This is exemplary of our goal to touch hearts, connect minds and activate hands through transformative experiences.
We educate visitors about sustainability issues through hands on, interactive exhibits. We believe that such fun and memorable experiences help guide our visitors’ exploration of such serious issues. With this method of learning, we aspire to raise awareness about sustainability.
We engage our visitors with important, serious issues through spaces that foster social participation. Our thought-provoking experiences prompt real empathy for sustainability Issues. We believe that this form of meaningful engagement is what it takes to leave a lasting impact on our visitors.
We encourage our visitors to take action through inspiring spaces. In a bid to help instigate change, we create spaces for new thinking, where visitors can conceptualize their own solutions. We hope that after learning about and engaging with sustainability Issues, our visitors feel empowered to do more!
Our practice
Whenever possible, we incorporate design characteristics that are more sustainable. We aspire to create smart designs for durable spaces through environmentally-conscious decisions. We use the R-principles, originally created by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, as our design thinking framework: Reflect, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle.
In order to practice sustainability, we educate ourselves on these issues and learn about the potential of smart design. We update ourselves on green practices and reflect upon ways to implement them into our projects.
In the production phase of our designs, we refuse the usage of highly wasteful and non-recyclable materials. We keep the footprint of a material (where does it come from and how is it produced?) in mind, for example by using mainly local materials.
We think about ways to reduce waste from our projects. Not just by smart design (with the least amount of material waste), but also by partaking in energy-efficient and longterm maintenance free solutions. Sometimes this means that the most sustainable option are non-recyclable materials that last a life time.
In our designs, we look for ways to reuse existing materials and elements from past exhibitions and incorporate them into new designs. We extend this aim for “reuse” through modular construction and a ‘design for disassembly’ project approach.
We try to find ways to repurpose the materials left over from previous exhibits. Instead of opting for new materials, we explore options to repurpose or upcycle the old.
With the help of sustainability minded production partners, we aim to incorporate recyclable materials into the final production of our designs.
Some example projects
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