There’s still time to catch one of the city’s most thought-provoking exhibitions on design, sustainability, and the future of making. Through Saturday, October 25, the Circular Design for Climate Mobilization (CDCMo) exhibition continues its run at NYCEDC’s MADE Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Showcasing over 100 shoppable, artful objects and furnishings, the exhibition features works by independent, award-winning makers from both local and international communities, including studios from Sweden, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Finland. These creators transform waste streams — such as orange peels, olive pits, textile debris, and even sewage sludge — into beautiful, functional products, demonstrating how circular materials can be the building blocks of new economies designed to benefit both people and the planet.
Curated by Liana Scobie, the CDCMo is fundamentally about linking materials, behaviors, and ecosystems. By highlighting pieces from exhibitors like Materia Madura and MushLume Lighting, the aim is to offer a space to experience circularity in tangible form and foster connections between the makers and designers, architects, property professionals, retailers, consumers, and more — helping to expand awareness of these concepts and leverage market interest for exhibiting brands. Confirms Scobie, “CDCMo’s ultimate goal is to capture enough interest for one or more of these international brands to expand to NYC.” This creative exploration is driven by the urgent need to move from an extractive linear economy to a regenerative circular one, a mission fully aligned with the NYCEDC’s vision for MADE Bush Terminal as part of the city’s “Harbor of the Future” — a hub for green technology and local manufacturing. Scobie adds, “Synergistically, MADE Bush Terminal, the initiative’s host and sponsor, is an ambitious urban redevelopment project in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, transforming a historic 20-acre waterfront property into a modern, mixed-use hub for local producers, fabricators, and creatives.” The entire showcase is a tangible call to action, reimagining work rooted in circularity and built for resilience.
The exhibition features independent, award-winning makers from around the world, including Caracara Collective (Finland), Interesting Times Gang (Sweden), Materia Madura (Puerto Rico), Naifactory Lab (Spain), OTTAN (U.K./Turkey), Christina Massey (Brooklyn, NY), CRCL.EARTH (Hudson, NY), MushLume Lighting (Brooklyn, NY), OurCarbon (San Francisco, CA), and Terreform ONE (Brooklyn, NY). Their work spans furniture, lighting, and sculptural forms — all connected by a shared ethos of regenerative design.
The exhibition is a living laboratory for circular economies, illustrating how waste streams and by-products can be reintroduced into production cycles. By uniting international makers and local industry leaders, CDCMo offers a tangible blueprint for a regenerative economy built on creativity and resilience. It’s an exhibition designed to make one consider the consequences of what we consume and what we leave behind.
The Circular Design for Climate Mobilization exhibition runs Thursday and Saturday, 10 AM–6 PM, through October 25. Learn more and register at www.cdcmo.nyc, and follow @cdcmo.nyc on Instagram for updates and event details.
MADE Bush Terminal, 13 42nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 – Building A Lobby.
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