20 million tons of ceramic waste is produced each year in China as a by-product of industry. A solution for waste management is needed fast. Currently, most of this waste is illegally dumped or buried and is not biodegradable.
Ms. Caroline CHENG, Yi Design’s co-founder, and its team share a vision to help the world through conservation and recycling. We are glad to have her shed light on how to work with architects and designers around the world to turn ceramic waste into bricks, tiles, projects, and art. The design contributes to society by entrenching recycled materials as materials for construction, civil engineering, and interiors.
Speaker: Ms. Caroline CHENG, an artist and curator, whose promotion of Chinese ceramic arts over decades has earned renown in China and throughout the world. As an artist, Caroline has held solo exhibitions in Sotheby’s Hong Kong (2013) and New York (2015). Her work has been collected by the British Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, San Francisco Asian Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Cheng has received prizes for her work in the Keramiak Museum in Westerwald, Germany (2010), Clay and Glass Film Festival in Montpellier France (2010), Mino International Ceramic Award 2017 and also received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the American National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in 2014 and the Japan Good Design Award for Community Development in 2020. Caroline Cheng is the owner of the Pottery Workshop in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jingdezhen and Dali. Its mission is to educate and promote the art of handmade ceramics. She is also the co-founder of Yi Design, currently working on ceramic waste as a new material.
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