Calvin Power - Further research

Notpla

revolutionary company redesigning what it means to package products, these guys remove the use of single use plastics all together and replace it with a plant based supplement

Evocative

company that uses mushrooms as an alternative material for packaging. and has now even stated to grow meat this way and produce new furniture alternatives

JAMES SHAW, MARJAN AUBEL - A WELL PROVEN CHAIR

Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw looked at ways of incorporating waste shavings into design using bio-resin. A curious chemical reaction occurs when it is mixed with the shavings, expanding it into a foamed structure. By adding colour dye and varied-sized shavings from different workshop machines, a colourful, lightweight and mouldable material was created, reinforced by the fibres in the hardwood shavings.

JORGES PENADES - STRUCTURAL SKIN

After extensive material investigations, Jorge Penadés devised a new production method that transforms the apparently worthless waste from leather factories into an innovative material that is made 100% from an animal source. Any resin or chemical component has been used along the production, carefully considering the environmental impact of the project.

STONE CYCLING - WASE BASED BRICKS

high-quality building materials made from waste. made from a minimum of 60% waste

MEIKE MEIJER - NEWSPAPER WOOD

MEIKENewspaperWood reverses a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but from (news)paper to wood.

When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear like wood grain or growth rings of a tree and therefore resemble the aesthetics of real wood.

STUDIO NIENKE HOOGVLIET - SEA ME COLLECTION

sustainable yarn can be used in the textile industry, but also in what other ways seaweed can be used. Nienke worked on creating a circular process to optimally use the seaweed. The waste of the one process is used for the other process, ending up with zero waste. Nienke discovered even more potential than she had expected: natural dye with seaweed offers a wide variety of colours. She can dye textiles into greens, browns, greys and even pinks and purples. Every type of seaweed gives a different colour. The light fastness of the dye is proven to be more than qualified.To show the potential of these materials, Nienke designed a chair and a table. The seating of the chair is made of seaweed yarn and dyed naturally with seaweed. This was woven by hand into a soft seating. The leftovers of this process are used to create a regular paint for the tabletop. The waste from was used to make the bio-plastic bowls. That’s how she wants to visualize how seaweed can be part of our homes in the future.

MARLENE HUISSOUD - FROM INSECTS

A collection of vessels from propolis using different glass techniques because the black propolis is similar to glass. The vessel is one of the most common products from glass that we know as an industrial material. The propolis was manipulated as a glass but has revealed other properties that gave it unique and unexpected characteristics (eg colors, texture, facility to manipulate engraved glass).

SANNE VISSER - THE NEW AGE OF TRICHOLOGY

A key design element for The New Age of Trichology is the system that needs to be put into place as this is a new way to use this material waste stream. The New Age of Trichology created a method of producing a material by using other existing crafts and using a waste stream. In this case focused on the tensile strength of the human hair fibre, where spinning and ropemaking techniques are applied. The system is a closed loop system in a way that the raw material collected at the beginning remains additive free and can go straight back into nature at the end of it’s life cycle, through composting or recycling.

SMOG FREE PROJECT - STUDIO ROOSEGAARDE

SMOG FREE PROJECT is a campaign for clean air led by Daan Roosegaarde to reduce air pollution and provide an inspirational experience of a clean future, including a series of urban innovations such as the SMOG FREE TOWER which provide a local solution of clean air in public spaces. It is combined with workshops with governments, students and the clean-tech industry to work together and make a whole city smog free.

GRAVIKY LABS - KAALINK , AIR INK

used to capture air pollution depending upon several conditions, the unit captures upto ~99% of the particular matter pollution without inducing back-pressure on the engines. KAALINK™ is currently in a advanced prototype stage, and can be designed to fit diesel generators and other fossil fuel chimney stacks. KAALINK™ is presently under testing process and commercial pilots, and available for private demonstrations. The unit works hard to capture outgoing pollutants, and is designed with heat and water-proof electronics and materials.

PARLEY FOR THE OCEANS - OCEAN PLASTIC

I found this quote from parley about there strategy quite inspiring, "Parley AIR is the strategy to end the fast-growing threat of marine plastic pollution.plastic is a design failure, one that can only be solved by reinventing the material itself. To create change, we can stop producing more plastic right away and use up-cycled marine plastic waste instead. Everyone has a role to play"

BOYAN SLAT - THE OCEAN CLEANUP

The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, is developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. The Ocean Cleanup is developing a passive ocean cleanup technology, that moves with the currents – just like the plastic – to catch it. By deploying a fleet of systems, The Ocean Cleanup has estimated to be able to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch every five years

DIANA SCHERER - INTERWOVEN

Charles Darwin was the first to watch the behaviour of plant roots. In his book The Power of Movements of Plants, he describes how roots do not passively grow down, but move and observe. A root navigates, knows what’s up and down, observes gravity and localizes moisture and chemicals. Darwin discovered that plants are a lot more intelligent, than everybody thought. For contemporary botanists, this buried matter is still a wondrous land. There is a global investigation to discover this hidden world. this project was an exploration of the ‘intelligence’ of plants in her my work

CAROLE COLLET - BOTANICAL CRAFT

This experimental collection of vessels is inspired by the ancient traditional craft of gourd moulding prominent in China in the 18th Century. It consists of placing a mould over the fruit of the Lagenaria plant (a genus of gourd bearing vines, part of the Cucurbitaceae family) so that it marries the shape of the mould as it grows. This research experiment explores the concept of slow manufacturing versus rapid prototyping and proposes to revisit botanical methods to grow contemporary utilitarian products, at ambient temperature.

ZUZANA GOMBOSOVA - INVISIBLE RESOUCES

With a self-developed biological printer, Zuzana Gombosova seeks to explore potential manufacturing processes and applications for bacterial cellulose by experimenting with different patterns of feeding and nurturing. To control the material’s growth she sends the printer to feed a specific area, stimulating the development at the targeted surface.Cultivating microorganisms to tangible matter, Zuzana introduces us to 'the age of bio-materials’ and offers a new way of material engineering? But she remains critical of her own design, questioning our ongoing urge to control nature.