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Making new building materials out of demolition waste and fungi
Architectural firm Redhouse Studio designed the Biocycler, a building recycler that uses living organisms like microbes and fungi to make new building material out of demolition waste. Annually, millions of tonnes of demolition waste goes ...
Read more >Coal: Post-Fuel considers coal as material
Coal: Post-Fuel, a project by designer Jesper Eriksson, considers an alternative, future use of coal as a material, re-evaluating the material’s image as dirty fuel. According to Eriksson, “In the instance of coal, the meaning ...
Read more >These “aquatic plants” are made with multi-material 3D printing
For her master thesis project at the Victoria University of Wellington, designer Nicole Hone created futuristic looking “aquatic plants” called Hydrophytes made with multi-material 3D printing. Each plant was first designed in pencil sketch to ...
Read more >These circular watches are made with recycled consumer waste
The start-up Circular Clockworks collaborated with Dutch recycling company Coolrec to create a line of circular watches, made from post-consumer ABS waste and leather waste from the shoe industry. The aim of the project, aside ...
Read more >Moving and self-healing light-responsive materials
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering developed magnetic elastomeric composites that move in different ways when exposed to light, while researchers at MIT designed a polymer material that can change its structure in response ...
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