Week 7: Transforming

This week we dive into materials and how to make your own bioplastics. The assignment of this week is to make your own bioplastics and use the Material Driven Design (MDD)-method to come up with future applications.

Core concepts: materials research, circularity, material driven design, material aesthetics

What: Make your own bioplastics and use the MDD-method to come up with future applications.

1. Make your own bioplastics. Try various recipes, add other materials, play with textures and use your mold. Document your process and findings.

2. Material properties sheet: Describe the properties of your material

3. Experiential toolkit: Understand the experience of your material

4. Future applications: Develop a concept for future applications

Inspiration of last year(s)

Last year´s inspiration overall look

Plastic is a word that originally meant “pliable and easily shaped

Set up at home

Weighing the Agar Agar

Water in measuring cup

Index

First tries: - Agar agar jasmine tea - Agar agar Russian earl grey tea - Agar agar corriander leaf - Agar agar blueberries jam - Agar agar cayenne - Agar agar maggi

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Grapefruit

Lemon

Inspiration of last year

First Try/Agar Agar

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Gelatine/Grapefruit

Maizena/Gelatine/Lemon

Cayenna pepper/Agar

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