Our project has three goals: Bring nature to city-dwellers Design cities for sustainable living by default Mitigate Nature Deficit Disorder (see the Children and Nature Network for more information) To accomplish these goals, we created a new kind of waste bin: the Digester. In addition to collecting food waste as standard waste bins do, the […]
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We are Plass. We believe that everything that lives has to eventually die. We don’t believe in permanence, especially when it comes to manufacturing materials. Plastic degrades but never decomposes. Its affordability and convenience comes at a high price for our planet and environment. Since 3D Printing became an effective mass production method, we decided […]
At present, the textile industry is an irreplaceable part of our daily life. However, it hazards seriously to our natural environment. For example, The World Bank estimates that 17 to 20% industrial water pollution is owed to fabric dyes and treatments (Pereira L. et al, 2009). It is also mentionable that textile units produce atmospheric […]
concept Our project has focused on the idea of using bioluminescence in a number of different settings. By designing a cutting-edge biologically advanced cell-free system, we are able to make use of pressure activated bioluminescence. We make use of the ‘PURE’ cell-free assembly kit to manufacture the constituent parts of the luminescent system. The system […]
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Plass – Materials that die
Plastic is omnipresent, there are nine billion tonnes of plastic in the world [1], more than one tonne for every human alive right now. 91% of this plastic is not recycled [2], leading to 51 trillion microscopic pieces of plastic in the ocean alone [3]. Furthermore, the plastic industry will keep on growing and is […]
WHY We all have different health need, some of us are allergic to specific things, some are very easy to accidentally hurt themselves. It’s hard to cover so many circumstances but with the help of future technology, this is possible.Let’s talk about the future cloth manufacture, we all know the technology developed pretty quickly and […]
CONCEPT In many countries and regions of the world, freedom of expression is still not a legal right of people. The communication was controlled by the governments and powerful groups. Seriously, even in the free areas, they still have their own problems of free expression. The recent scandal of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica exposed that […]
The concept of biodesign implies not only creating practically applicable biological concepts, but to challenge previous concepts to impress and capture imagination. At Mycterials, we aim to expand on the one-sided strategies used to engineer mushrooms for functional design. Mycelium, or polymers of fungal hyphae, is an exciting sustainable and cost effective biomaterial. Mycelium is […]
The food production problems society faces The state of global food production is changing rapidly. Our team is attempting to envision how the state of our food may look in 10 – 20 years time and discovering the problems we may face. As the atmospheric temperature levels rise many negative and unforeseen consequences, and many […]
Concept： Visual signal a universal language and it has great potential and power. With the lack of resources becoming increasingly global, an innovative way to communicate across languages and species becomes very important. For that purpose, our team comes up with a concept that to use bioluminescence as a tool to transfer information and data. […]
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Self-healing fabric…. a second skin?
Self-healing fabric The inspiration for many of self-healing materials already developed come from the process of blood clotting, tissue and bone regeneration. However, incorporating the same route into engineering materials become a challenge due to the complex of the healing process. Since the beginning of the design process, we have explored some alternatives. Some of […]
There is a constant nature involvement and surrounding annihilation, with its consequences such as loss of community behaviour or care for what is close to us[1] developing in a “Nature Deficit Disorder”[2]. Our circular system based on bioreactors aims to change this by bringing buildings back to life, where these will gain the metaphorical role […]