Imagine a Chair | An Animated Explanation of Circular Economy

This short animation film, produced for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation by the author Christiane Dorion, explains to children in a simple way the concept of a circular economy. Just like cycles in nature, we can design and make our stuff to be made again, so materials can be reused over and over in an endless loop, without creating any waste.

This animation is based on Christiane’s book ‘How we Make Stuff’.

You can download the accompanying teaching resource here:
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If a chair fell from that height it will break lol that’s though chair metal it looks like it was created from titanium lol

[Propsman]

Explains to children?
"Imagine a chair made 300 years ago. Imagine a chair made quicker and cheaper with the invention of factories about 200 years ago." Sorry, but children today have no concept of factories, the industrial revolution, and what manufacturing was like 200 years ago, let alone what furniture construction was like 300 years ago.

To understand the premise of this, children would need to be taught about those things, and today it's highly unlikely they will gain any concept of them before their late teens. The message of the book this is based upon and this video itself have value, but by failing to recognize the baseline of knowledge that children have today about it's very subject matter, they are both destined to fail in their noble aim.