Sum Studio

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]   During the pandemic time, these designers found a way to fight the virus without using plastics. Xylinum Mask was created during a worldwide PPE shortage. The mask is made from bacteria, this makes the mask composable and low in...

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Studio Eidola

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Ocean Articulated COUNTRY Switzerland  (Re-)Discovering material qualities. Inspired by the natural processes happening in the High Rhine area of Switzerland. The project Ocean Articulated is a recyclable and load-bearing material with locally extracted salt and sand. The temporary nature of the material...

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Tropozone

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT The sound of speech as it echos in the cloud COUNTRY France/ China A controversial AI experiment. Speculating about more-than-human encounters. Wondering if machines teach us about ecological care? The project presents a voice assistant network with geographically distributed nodes; each...

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Sachi Tungara

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT Glutteny COUNTRY India Giving an ode to one of the most versatile raw materials: wheat flour. Understanding its behaviour, its main component gluten, exploring its qualities and composition that allows it to be so wonderfully versatile in its cooked forms. Exploring...

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Sanne Bruurmijn

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]   A design process and research to develop usable materials with the plant 'Canadian fleabane'. This project shows what we can develop with raw materials that we see as unusable, and to evoke more appreciation for this. Aiming to make...

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Catinca Tilea

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PROJECT H.O.W.   COUNTRY The Netherlands  Can we turn organic waste into a circular material, a material that allows us to grow objects at home? Catinca is bridging biotech and the social dilemmas. This design-science collaboration makes a social biotech proposition: to shift perception...

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Anne-Marie Sust

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Behind every new trend colour is a dyeing process that is often harmful to the environment. - So how good can clothes feel when you don't know what material you're wearing? This project shows that sustainability and aesthetics can't...

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Urban Reef

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Physical conditions such as humidity, temperature and sunlight can shape unique environments for different sorts of life. Urban reef’s 3D printed artefacts consist of organic materials in order to host all types of fungi and plants. Creating new relationships...

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Kim van den Belt

Within her research, Kim develops new sustainable and living CO2 filters made of a stone type olivine, the mineral struvite and photosynthetic algae. Her work explores the possibility with natural, local ingredients to create new bicarbonate solutions in an energy neutral system. ‏‏‎ ‎   ...

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Eliska Janečková

PROJECT Micro-Macro-Ferm COUNTRY Czech Republic Micro-macro-ferm is an ongoing research for a material behaving as a membrane: allowing water to pass in, but keeping the content inside. The displayed work shows the dynamics of scoby through the process where pH changes and interacts with LED light. Eliska’s goal...

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