As many already know, the fashion industry is one of the most polluting in the world, specifically producing about 10% of all global CO2 emissions, as this United Nations report explains. In order to make this industry circular, however, there are many factors to take into account: from the use of water for garment production…
At the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which opened in the Portuguese capital on Sept. 29 and runs until Dec. 5, 2022, this year's theme is Terra (earth), meant not only as planet or material, but as a set of communities, of systems, of solutions to common problems on different scales. Among the independent projects on display…
The Growing Sneakers is Nicholas Rapagnani's thesis project at UniBz - University of Bolzano. The designer, passionate about sports shoes and natural sciences, started his research with the aim of combining footwear design with microbiological experiments.
As previously said, a complicated production and the use of different materials (rubber, textile, various plastics, etc.) make it almost…
The search for new sustainable materials is one of the many focuses of contemporary design and some designers and studios are increasingly exploring this sector of the discipline. Tŷ Syml is one of these practices and was founded in February 2019 with the intention of providing an avenue to explore the research that Adam Davies…
Did you know that your sneakers are polluting the planet? The complicated construction and the use of different materials (rubber, textile, various plastics, etc.) make it almost impossible and unprofitable to disassemble and recycle a pair of trainers after their use. What if we could create waste-based sneakers? This is probably what Emilie Burfeind thought…
The Mycelium furniture collection is the result of the collaboration between the furniture designer and maker Sebastian Cox and design strategist, thinker Ninela Ivanova.
Mycelium+Timber is a collection of pieces of grown furniture, a series of stools and lights, made using freshly cut wood waste from Sebastian’s woodland which has been myceliated with the species Fomes…