The Audi Environmental Foundation in dialogue at Vogue NEXT 2022
20.12.2022 — Reading time: 1 min
As the title of the event "VogueNEXT" suggests, it was all about tomorrow. The focus was on ideas included specific approaches such as waste collection technologies and battery reuse concepts currently under development and evaluation (in the fashion industry) and impulses on the topics of digitalization and diversity. The guests at the event, including personalities from the fashion and creative industries as well as from business and society, discussed how resource conservation, circular economy approaches and environmental projects can contribute to reducing environmental impacts.
The Audi Environmental Foundation was also present and, together with two project partners, presented the following initiatives: the Cleanup Mission, the waste collection campaign with the start-up everwave, and the reuse of discarded lithium-ion batteries, a cooperation with the German-Indian start-up Nunam.
In a panel talk moderated by Rabea Schif, Matthias Roßmann spoke with Clemens Feigl, CEO and Co-Founder of everwave, and, Mea Hoffmann, Curator for the Vitra Design Museum, on the topic of "Plastic: History, Dangers and Opportunities of Plastic."
The closing of the conference was dominated by "Second Life". Fittingly, Prodip Chatterjee, co-founder of Nunam, and Alexander Kupfer, who works at Audi on product concepts related to battery reuse, material efficiency, and circular economy approaches, demonstrated in an interactive workshop how used batteries can be repurposed for second-life applications material efficiency and circular economy approaches.
