The next virtual webinar sponsored by the American Cetacean Society (ACS) will be held on Wednesday July 10 at 7:00pm over Zoom. Charlotte McCurdy will be the speaker. No registration is required.

About the Presentation:

Please join us on Zoom for Charlotte McCurdy’s presentation on Algae and Sustainable Fashion! 

About the Speaker:

Charlotte McCurdy is an industrial designer who created fashionable, carbon-negative designs from algae. She holds a master’s in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a B.A. in Global Affairs with a concentration in economic development from Yale University.

Ms. McCurdy’s expertise ranges from economics to climate change to Swarovski crystals. She is currently a Core Lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, where she teaches design at the intersection of climate change, futures, and strategy.

Since 2016, Ms. McCurdy has had numerous exhibits around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tribeca Film Festival in New York; the National Maritime Museums of Finland, Sweden, and Denmark; and the Powerhouse Museum in Australia, just to name a few. She was also featured at the London Design Museum and in the Cooper Hewitt Triennial.

Recent collaborators include Hyundai/Genesis, 3.1 Phillip Lim, the UN Office for Partnerships, and Swarovski. Previously she served as Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Arizona State University and at the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, she is working on her first book, De-Industrial Design, as part of the “Designing Now” series from Lund Humphries. She also has a patent pending for “Carbon-Negative Bioplastic.”

A few articles relating to Ms. McCurdy’s work are:

2024 Haberl, Jessica “Power Plants: Algae in fashion, beauty and food” Green Knowledge, February 21, 2024: greenknowledge.org/algae/

2021 Oelbaum, Jed. “Seaweed Clothes Can Save the Planet.” Vice News, April 29.: Seaweed Clothes Can Save the Planet (vice.com)

2021 Hahn, Jennifer. “Phillip Lim and Charlotte McCurdy Adorn Couture Dress with Algae Sequins.” Dezeen, February 22.: Phillip Lim and Charlotte McCurdy adorn couture dress with algae sequins (dezeen.com)

2020 Cameron, Claire. “Charlotte McCurdy Wants You to Forget Everything You Know about Climate Change.” Inverse, November 8.: Charlotte McCurdy: A world where your clothes fight climate change is possible (inverse.com)

Join the Zoom presentation.

Meeting ID: 513 147 5168 Passcode: Whales