MVRDV’s engagement with recycling in Bangkok Design Week is part of the practice’s broader efforts in sustainability, as it aims to transition its portfolio to a low-carbon, “Paris-proof” paradigm. The firm recently opened the Carbon Confessions exhibition in Munich that tells the story of their quest for carbon reductions on multiple levels, from developing the CarbonSpace software to optimise the emissions of their projects to creating The Green Dream Foundation to offset the travel emissions created in the course of their work.

The Mega Mat was created in collaboration with the Creative Economic Agency, PTT Global Chemicals, and the Embassy of the Netherlands. The installation is one of a number of MVRDV actions at Bangkok Design Week: on February 13th–15th, in collaboration with We!Park the firm exhibited PROMPT PARK, a participatory AI project to reimagine a leftover space under the Sirat Expressway at Surawong Road. On February 15th, MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas presented the lecture “People, Places, and Architecture” in the Central Convention Hall at Silpakorn University, a recording of which will soon be made available.