Photo: Mikaela Källgren, source Beckmans’ website

If humanity is good at one thing, it’s pollution, and the ocean tends to take the brunt of it. We dump huge amounts of trash, chemicals and sewage into it everyday, to the point where what’s known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been created (the Atlantic and Indian oceans are also home to their own garbage patches), not to mention overfishing and more. The Beijer Institute is a department run with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that focuses on “ecological economics”. Their project Key Stone Dialogues aims to bring together researchers and the world’s biggest fishing companies to come up with ways to improve the ocean’s environment.

These ideas are now making the move into art at Svenskt Tenn’s Strandvägen outlet. Transformation is an exhibition with works from sixteen students at Beckmans College Of Design from the school of Visual Communication, who have created pieces inspired by the Beijer Instutute’s research. Works featured include a broadcast from an alternative future and a kitchen appliance that ‘unplastic-ifies’ food to make it safe to eat. Transformation is at Svenskt Tenn until the end of January, and you can read more about it here (In Swedish).

Transformation by Beckmans students, on display until Jan 29. Svenskt Tenn, Strandvägen 5