To interior finish and graphic substrate manufacturers:
As members of the museum exhibition community, and inspired by the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Materials Pledge of 2019 and the Lighting Advocacy Letter of 2021, we unite as museum exhibition designers, fabricators, and installers to ask manufactures to continue to raise their standards of transparency while providing long-lasting, high-quality materials that positively impact all people.
As museum exhibit designers, fabricators, and installers, we join with our colleagues who have signed the 2019 AIA Materials Pledge, and we also pledge to:
- support human health by preferring products that support and foster life throughout their life-cycles and seek to eliminate the use of hazardous substances.
- support social health & equity by preferring products from manufacturers that secure human rights in their own operations and in their supply chains, positively impacting their workers and the communities where they operate.
- support ecosystem health by preferring products that support and regenerate the natural air, water, and biological cycles of life through thoughtful supply chain management and restorative company practices.
- support climate health by preferring products that reduce carbon emissions and ultimately sequester more carbon than emitted.
- support a circular economy by reusing and improving buildings and by designing for resiliency, adaptability, disassembly, and reuse, aspiring to a zero-waste goal for global construction activities.
To address these concerns and to meet our goals of transforming the industry, we commit to continuously updating our design libraries and specifications. We commit to sharing best practices, educational resources, and preferred products with our museum exhibition community. We further commit to giving priority to products and manufacturers with a commitment to:
- Provide publicly available material ingredient disclosure information.
- Provide publicly available environmental impact disclosure information.
- Provide publicly available Design for Freedom supplier questionnaires or similar supply chain disclosure information.
- Do not stop at material transparency but strive for optimization.
To achieve this goal, we must work together as museum leadership, museum boards, exhibit directors, curators, exhibit designers, graphic designers, lighting designers, audiovisual designers, audiovisual specifiers and installers, building product manufacturers, graphic print houses, exhibit fabricators and exhibit installers to build awareness, share knowledge, drive demand, and deliver solutions. We ask you, as responsible product manufacturers, for your commitment to work towards market transformation in the museum exhibition world. To accelerate this mission and to leverage cross-industry insight and expertise, we seek your partnership in advancing this conversation at upcoming industry annual meetings, conferences and trade shows.
We value our relationship with each of you and we understand that the change we seek will not be accomplished overnight. Please join us in continued dialogue and collaboration as we learn from each other and improve the best practices of museum exhibitions.
Sincerely,
MUSEUM EXHIBITION MATERIALS PLEDGE SIGNATORIES