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Reframing hygiene tactics and accessible maker culture through a DIY lens.
While public places like schools and stores are slowly opening their doors again in Europe, we have to be cautious about how we can limit ways for the virus to spread. We have to suppress our natural tendency to touch the objects that we habitually touch. Many everyday objects require our hands to operate them. Doorhandles, water taps, soap dispensers, buttons and handrails are all things that are not only touched frequently, but by many people in relatively short spans of time. Instead of franticly trying to clean these objects continuously, we could try to come up with solutions to refrain from touching them with our hands completely. **A possible solution is to use "personal devices". Objects that are an extension of our own body that prevent direct contact with possibly contaminated surfaces, like doorhandles and buttons. In this project I aim to provide a solution to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus through surface contamination, that is accessible to everyone and doesn't depend on regular production methods.
Hi I'm Summer! I'm a 3rd year CMD student and I'm currently following the Makerslab minor. I like to work on both digital and physical products. In this project I tried create possible products to help prevent the spread of the Corona virus.
https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/reserachzine
Redesigning Warhammer landscapes from a sustainable DIY perspective.
It’s brought chaos to the kitchen tables for over 30 years. If you’re remotely interested in strategy gaming, you’ve probably heard of Warhammer. Players collect forces of miniature plastic models and use them to play out on a tabletop battlefield. The tabletop can be made by players themselves with help from several how-to and DIY videos that can be found online but also in books. Players spend hours building and painting their miniatures, a process that requires patience, money, dedication and, sometimes, considerable artistic skill. During this process of building, many products that are used, are environmentally unfriendly.
The most commonly used chemical products to make the landscapes with are, epoxy, plastic, Styrofoam and paint. During my studies at the minor Makers Lab, I have redesigned a Warhammer landscape from a DIY sustainable perspective. My goal with this project is to influence the Warhammer community to replace the chemical products that are used today, so that Warhammer will be a more sustainable hobby.
When reading my research zine please download the PDF underneath instead of the Issuu version. Unfortunately my hyperlinks don't work on Issuu and my design has changed on Issuu because I have actually designed for Adobe Acrobat.
Bio
I am Dusanka Prvulovic, a 22-year old student at the HvA, following the minor Makers Lab in my 3rd year of CMD. I choose this minor because I am interested in creating more with my hands instead of just digital. I'd like to create a better and more sustainable environment with any of my projects. The Bioplastic Landscape for Warhammer is a redesigned landscape from a sustainable DIY perspective. By sharing my knowledge that I have learned during my studies (minor Makers Lab, I hope to achieve that the Warhammer community is going to replace certain environmentally unfriendly products with more friendly ones.
Encouraging photo experimentation in a tactile manner
For years now, professional and hobby photographers have relied on editing software like Adobe Photoshop to make their photos look as beautiful and unique as possible. Before this digital age of still imagery, however, people used analogue cameras that made use of actual filters to apply effects to a photograph. With my Bioplastic Filters, I want to bring us back to this earlier stage of photography. Making your own filters using cheap ingredients found in almost every household is a great and fun way to experiment with the infinite possibilities that the world of photography has to offer.
Link to research zine: https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/researchzine_dvk
My name is Daniël van Kesteren. I'm a Creative Business student at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Currently I'm doing the Maker's Lab Minor. I have combined this with my interest in photography to work on this project.
Ephemeral exercise gear to support rehabilitation and fitness exercises during lockdown.
Due to the current measures related to Covid-19, we are stuck at home. The gyms are closed and people who are in rehabilitation cannot go to the physiotherapist. It is difficult to exercise at home because many people are limited in sports materials. Sports materials are often expensive to purchase and the exercises you can do with them are often monotonous.
I want to show that it is possible to make your own workout material with the stuff you have at home and what you can get from your local supermarket, which is cheaper. I want to do this by means of a gelatin based balance cushion in a way that everyone can make it themselves. With a balance cushion it is possible to do exercises that train muscles throughout your body.
Due to the different material properties that gelatin entails in the process that it hardens, the user can maintain a sports schedule. This starts with soft where the focus is on strength and balance, after which it hardens and the user can focus on stamina and stability.
https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/andreimotian_researchzine
I'm Andrei Motian, 3rd year Communication & Mulitmedia Design student at Hogeschool van Amsterdam. I chose the minor Makerslab because I want to make the physical products for my own skateboarding brand by myself instead of the website and designs.
With this project I want to inspire people to exercise at home while making their own workout equipment.
You can read more and see some other projects on my website down below.
One size-fits-all facemasks revisited: from universal to personal fit.
Healthcare providers have an essential role in times of Covid-19. They care for the Covid-19 patients and are therefore more likely to be infected by the virus than others. The surgical facemasks they use in the hospital have a universal size. The facemask will not suit everyone well, so that healthcare providers are not sufficiently protected as they deserve to be. By developing facemask straps, I try to contribute to a better protection against Covid-19 and making them more comfortable to wear.
I'm Kaz Bison, a 3rd year Communication and Multimedia Design student at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
A tactile material experience to support changing embodied social habits.
Sunday the 15th of March the 1,5 meter-society has been introduced. From this point on nobody is allowed to get near each other closer than 1,5 meter except for your housemates. Our brain was set to tell that an interhuman distance between 120 cm and 200 cm would be most appropriate for business relationships (like your colleagues, classmates etc.) or strangers. The Dutch Government has imposed to treat our loved ones the same way. We are not allowed to choose our own personal space anymore. The DateKleed will encourage human interaction in a safe way, to prevent society for serious threatening effects, like Huidhonger, without the need of striking tape, fines or police watching you.
Photographer: Mayte Breed
How to color your bioplastic by only using natural ingredients which are easily accessible?
How to color your bioplastic by only using natural ingredients which are easily accessible? This project is all about creating the seven basic colors to be used in gelatin-based bioplastics. The iterationswere always based on the same recipe, with natural products that are easily accessible, like products you can find in a supermarket and are not all too expensive. To name a few, with red cabbage you can make purple and with beetroot you can make red. Different ways and products have been looked at to get these colors, to see what works best and to see what it does to the bioplastic. In addition, tests have also been carried out to see what affects the bioplastic and what does not. This resulted in about 40 different kinds of bioplastic with all kinds of colors, that will help designers getting more freedom in their work and give others more inspiration and variety for applications.
https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/research_zine_issuu
Bio
I'm Desiree van Dam, a 3rd year Communication and Multimedia Design student, a UX-Designer and UI-designer studying at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. With this project I hope to inspire others to think about alternatives for using plastic, by proposing natural and accessible ways to color bioplastics.
How to make appropriate and safe faceguards made from bioplastics
In times of great fear and uncertainties, we tend to use familiar and easy solutions for our problems. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people and companies use plastics to make protection gear; like cashier protection screens and faceguards. These solutions are not environmental friendly because they make use of complex production processes and long supply chains. This adds up to the negative effect on the environment. Additionally, it is almost impossible to make such items by yourself at home.
Here comes my project in place : DIY Faceguards. I want to show that anybody can fabricate appropriate and safe protection gear with everyday ingredients. It only takes 3 ingredients to become a maker of your own faceguard. Faceguards are a good addition to the regular face masks, because it protects the eyes and it will prevent you from scratching/touching your face.
https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/thijsu_researchzine_diy_faceguard
My name is Thijs Uffen, 25 years old and studying Communication & Multimedia Design at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. I am an UX Designer and UI Designer. I enjoy making tech and web accessible and aesthetic. With this project, I hope to inspire people to become a maker themselves, just as I did during the Makerslab minor.
Self-initiated projects from Minor Makers Lab: Making as Research 2020 (the COVID-19 semester)
To adapt to remote teaching in extraordinary times, our course on making as research had to be reimagined almost overnight. We arrive at the end of a semester that asked us all to reflectively engage with the conditions that make making as we know it possible. Repeatedly hitting our heads against our often invisible reliance on facilities and supply chains has been a struggle and a blessing, but seeing their interdependencies more clearly certainly encouraged us to take a radical turn in terms of the materials we choose to work with as makers. We experimented with bio-based materials and learned to embrace the fact that we would not be exerting the kind of control we are used to having over materials we know and work with when we use industrial machines. Limitations turned into openings and vice versa as we were practically confronted with the ways tools and staple materials inform what we can imagine.
Students engaged in self-directed projects from home, making do with the limited tools and materials at hand. From their kitchens, gardens and bedrooms, they engaged with challenges around the lived realities of the COVID-19 crisis, often combined with a strong sense of homebrew material activism. During this year’s expo, students will present projects on topics of RIVM regulations, fashion, dating, packaging, exercise, biomaterials and DIY maker cultures.
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Ephemeral exercise gear to support rehabilitation exercises during lockdown.
Student: Andrei Motian (CMD)
Coach: Marjolijn Ruyg
Tags: exercise, quarantaine, bioplastics
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Student: Dusanka Prvulovic (CMD)
Coach: Marjolijn Ruyg
Tags: Warhammer, kitbashing, bioplastics
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Back to the basics of "light writing", using DIY analog, bioplastic photofilters.
Student: Daniël van Kesteren (CO/CB)
Coach: Marjolijn Ruyg
Tags: photography, biofabricating, filters
View this project >> update this link!!!
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Towards hyperdisposable sporks: beyond the promise of biodegradable plastic.
Student: Anoush Mazloumian (CMD)
Coach: Yuri Westplat
Tags: biofabricating, material activism
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Reframing hygiene tactics and accessible maker culture through a DIY lens.
Student: Summer Danoe (CMD)
Coach: Yuri Westplat
Tags: COVID-19, personal devices, DIY
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In search of a lightweight, compostable bioplastic to protect fragile goods.
Student: Laura Velgersdijk (PD)
Coach: Yuri Westplat
Tags: biofabricating, material activism
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A tactile material experience to support changing embodied social habits.
Student: Duncan van Norden (AMFI)
Coach: Marjolijn Ruyg
Tags: social distancing, dating, materials
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One size-fits-all facemasks revisited: from universal to personal fit.
Student: Kaz Bison (CMD)
Coach: Yuri Westplat
Tags: COVID-19, PPE, DIY, personal fit
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Rethinking disposable packaging for the transportation of garments.
Student: Kim Sinke (CMD)
Coach: Yuri Westplat
Tags: biofabricating, material activism
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Seeking alternatives for the diminishing material supplies used for personal protection equipment (PPE).
Student: Thijs Uffen (CMD)
Coach: Yuri Westplat
Tags: COVID-19, faceguards, bioplastics
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Creating a rainbow of color for bioplastics, using natural, accessible ingredients only.
Student: Desiree van Dam (CMD)
Coach: Marjolijn Ruyg
Tags: biofabricating, natural pigments
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Being yourself does not have to be in a human form.
Student: Britt de Heer (AMFI)
Coach: Marjolijn Ruyg
Tags: body accessories, biofabricating
Foam bioplastics made from gelatin and honey.
Weight is an important aspect of the transport industry and extra weight from packaging is kept at a minimum. This is why packaging is often made from plastics since they are a lightweight material. The material for the packaging is usually used once and then discarded. I wanted to find a more environmentally friendly alternative for the disposable plastics and choose to try this by using bioplastics as a substitute.
I wanted to make a new material made from bioplastic that is lightweight and possibly stretchable. I found this in a bioplsatic made from gelatin and honey. This 'Honeyfoam' bioplastic is a thicker, stronger and more stretchable bioplastic.
https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/laura_project_researchzine01
My name is Laura Velgersdijk. I am a 4th year industrial design engineering student at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. I wanted to follow this minor so I could spend more time making and learning how to make. I had never worked on bioplastics before this minor but I have grown very fond of the entire proces and all the possibilities there are with them.
Research about bioplastic packaging bags
Do you love receiving your online order as much as I do? I always wait for my online order in full excitement and when it arrives I only have eyes for the product I ordered, not for the packaging materials. I can’t even remember how the last packaging materials I got looked like and how I threw them away.
Is that packaging even necessary you might think? Well it is, without the plastic packaging bag your freshly received product could not be looking so fresh and brand new. But what can we do with this useless piece of plastic? Make it biologically absorbable and reusable!
In the past ten weeks I’ve been researching the perfect recipe to make biodegradable and reusable ‘plastic’ packaging bags. The result is an Agar Agar based transparant and sealable packaging bag that can be home-composted.
In the Research Zine you will find my research and inspiration.
You can view my Research zine about the Bioplastic packaging bag on ISSUU: https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/research_zine_kimsinke_official
My name is Kim Sinke. I am a 21-years old student at the University Of Applied Siences Amsterdam. In my 3rd year as a Communication and Multimedia Design (CMD) student I'm following the minor Makers Lab. During this minor I wanted to learn more about different materials and about the making process of products. During this minor I learned that there are more sustainable ways to make or remake products.
With this project I want to show people that there are sustainable and earth loving ways to produce products and that there is more than dirty plastic.
The search for an alternative of hard and strong plastic. Focussing on one of the most harmful plastic waste in the ocean: disposable cutlery.
Plastic disposable cutlery is one of the top ten plastics found on the shores of the ocean (Millieucentraal, 2020). Sea animals see those plastics as food. They eat it, get poisened or get internal injuries and die. This is a pressing problem in our world while there is an easy solution: hyperdiposable bioplastic.
By focussing on a spork, I came to a lot of different requirements for the material. A spork needs to be strong, not bendable and sharp. My process takes you through the search for the best fittable biobased and animal proof material for a fast degrading spork.
| "Of the 120 species of marine mammals on the Red List of Threatened Species, 54 have been documented to eat or entangle plastic." (BUND, 2019)
| “95% of the Fulmar in the North Sea has plastic in its stomach. On average, that is 34 pieces (total weight of 0.31 grams). Converted to humans, it is a plate full of plastic. ” (BUND, 2019)
https://issuu.com/makingasresearch/docs/research-zine-anoush
I am Anoush Mazloumian, student Communication & Multimedia design. This year, I attended the minor Makerslab to learn more about the criticals of being a maker. I leveled up my experience in innovative machines as 3D and RISO printers and finished a full research project on bioplastics focussed on cutlery disposables.
Being yourself doesn't have to be in a human form.
The name of my project is Beyond Humanity. For this project I really wanted to combine making and my personal interests. So I decided to make body accessories out of bioplastics. My inspiration for this idea was drag and performance art. Most people know drag as a man dressed as a women, but drag goes way deeper than that. The art of drag is based on a physical transformation that goes beyond sexuality and gender. The transformation I wanted to focus on is the transformation beyond humanity. I don’t want to accessorise the body, but embrace it. These accessories are more like your second skin.
The reason I wanted to make these kind of body accessories out of bioplastic is because bioplastic are biodegradable just like most parts of the human body. These accessories are definitely not timeless. Through life the idea of your body changes and because these accessories are so close to the body they might not fit the idea of your body anymore in a later state of your life. These accessories are also unique, no piece is the same. Just like people.
The recipe I used for the accessories is alignate based. The interesting thing about this recipe is that you can not control it properly. It sort of lives it’s own life and that’s what made it interesting for me to ‘design’ the accessories.
I'm Britt de Heer and I am currently in my fourth year of Fashion & Branding at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute. At fashion and branding we mostly do 2D design. I chose this minor to get more experience in making and also making in 3D. This minor gave me more skills as a brander and helped me form my own identity as a brander even more.
With this project I wanted to challenge myself to combine making and my personal interests and this project challenged me to let go. Normally I feel like I'm in control with my projects, but due to the material I couldn't be in control all the time.
If you want to see more of my projects have a look at my website:
