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- Recycling Fly Ash Into High-Performance Outdoor FurnitureChinese design studio Bentu Design explores the potential of industrial waste through material-driven products for architecture and public space. With its ‘X’ stool, the…
- 3D printing concrete made from fly ash and steel slag3D printing concrete has made the material a bit more sustainable, as less material is necessary to create objects and even building. However, making…
- 3D printing the Notre Dame from its own ashesDutch concrete 3D printing firm CONCR3DE suggests to rebuild the Notre Dame by 3D printing its ashes. Last week, the roof of the Notre…
- Tiles glazed with volcanic ashIn collaboration with design studio Formafantasma, Dzek developed a collection of tiles, glazed with volcanic ash. ExCinere, as the collection is called, is range…
- A Memorial Crafted from Pet Ashes and Crushed ShellsResting Reef is pioneering a unique solution for pet memorials by combining pet ashes with crushed shells to create sustainable, underwater reef urns. The…
- Cenit Lighting Series Combines Cultivated Cellulose With Natural AshMexican biomaterials company Polybion and design studio Natural Urbano have launched Cenit. This made-to-order lighting collection combines natural ash with translucent Celium. Polybion grows…
- Flying Construction Robots Open New Opportunities for Building and DesignResearchers from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) and EPFL have published a study exploring the potential of aerial robots—commonly…
- Fly more comfortably thanks to smart textile chairsBenjamin Hubert of strategic design agency Layer designed Move, a prototype for economy class seating made with smart textiles for Airbus. The seats consist…
- Acrete: lighter, stronger, and more environmentally friendly than concreteIn recent years, people have become more and more aware of the polluting consequences of making concrete. However, finding a good alternative isn’t all…
- Taking the ‘con’ out of concreteIn an effort to make the construction industry more sustainable, alternative concrete materials are becoming much more frequent. Below, we discuss some noticeable ones.…
- Agar Plasticity: The Exciting Potential of Seaweed-based PackagingNew Japanese design studio AMAM (Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani and Akira Muraoka) work with agar, a seaweed-based material to develop new and more eco-friendly…
- A cabin made from beetle infested wood and concrete 3D printingLeslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, both assistant professors of architecture at Cornell University in the US and co-principals of design firm HANNAH, designed a…
- Sustainable paving tiles are made with household wasteMost paving tiles in the Netherlands are made of grey concrete, a material that is not particularly good for the environment as the making…
- The future of mobility: an interview with Erik TempelmanWhat will transportation look like in the future? Will self driving cars be mainstream, or will we have moved on to flying cars? Erik Tempelman,…
- Tilting with windmills: innovations in wind energy on Windmill DayToday is Windmill Day, and what better moment to discuss the latest developments in generating wind energy? Using windmills to generate energy has a…
- Climate-Responsive Office Design With Recycled And Low-Carbon MaterialsLocated along a busy arterial road in Jaipur, India, Magnus by Sanjay Puri Architects demonstrates how material innovation can drive climate-responsive architecture. The office…
- La Fabrique Allwood: Material-Driven Furniture Production with a Sustainable FocusLa Fabrique Allwood is a furniture manufacturer based in Montreal, Canada. Since 2014, the company has designed and produced furniture made from solid urban…
- Tableware made from grass-fed waste bonesUS-based artist Gregg Moore, in collaboration with chef Dan Barber, launched a series of ceramics at Barber’s restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns in…
- Dutch scavenger designDuring Dutch Design Week 2019, graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven showcased their work. One group of projects, grouped under the header ‘The Scavengers’, used…
- Bricks made from household garbageDutch companies StoneCycling, AVR and Mineralz collaborated to make bricks from household garbage. StoneCycling is a company best known for their WasteBasedBricks, which are…
- Lithuanian Researchers Turn Textile Waste into High-Strength CementResearchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania have developed a new way to turn textile waste into both alternative fuel and high-performance…
- Turning plastic back into oilThe Dutch company PyrOil developed a method to turn plastic back into oil in a continuous stream using pyrolysis. Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition…
- 3 examples of Polish material designExhibited during Dutch Design Week 2019 (19-27 October), 3 Polish graduates showed their work in material design. Called Young Polish Designers: Studies in Reality,…
- Acoustic divider system made from locally sourced materialsPLECTERE, designed by Dutch designer Petra Vonk, is a series of acoustic divider systems made from locally sourced wool felt and ash wood. Acoustics…
