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For the first time in millennia, creative reuse has a name as well as a place within our modern vocabulary. In 2019, ‘upcycling’ became Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year with searches on their website increasing by 181% since December 2011. Never before has reuse been associated with benefiting the planet’s environment and establishing a circular economy whilst giving life to a professional creative movement where upcycling is used to fashion products specifically for interiors. But no matter how much professional upcycling for interiors benefits the environment and economy and introduces unique twenty-first-century design aesthetics, progress has not been straightforward. This chapter provides a historical account of the increasing interest in upcycling for interiors over the past few decades in and around the UK.
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Billinghurst, C. (2021). Professional Upcycling in Partnership with Sustainability. In: Sung, K., Singh, J., Bridgens, B. (eds) State-of-the-Art Upcycling Research and Practice . Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72640-9_21
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