Digital Product Passport

The digital product passport is an emerging regulatory and technological tool aimed at tracing the lifecycle of materials and products. By embedding information on origin, composition, repairability, and recyclability, it seeks to enforce transparency in supply chains. Within the context of sustainability, it reconfigures accountability by making environmental and social costs legible. For design, it introduces a new material literacy, where products are inseparable from their data profiles. The digital product passport materializes the politics of traceability and makes the address of global ecologies more transparent, tracing the tentacles in the global landscape of supply chains and material production.

/ Urška Škerl

In December this year, the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will start to apply to medium and large operators and traders. For micro and small enterprises, the same rules will apply next year. This means that if a commodity, such as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, rubber, or wood, and products derived from those commodities, […]

/ Zaš Brezar

Liam Young is together with Kate Davies running the Unknown Fields project. They travel around the world and explore landscapes behind objects we used on a daily basis: materials for our phones, fabrics for clothes, lithium for batteries … We caught Liam in Ljubljana, where he was narrating Unknown Fields film live.  

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