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The Digester: a Bin for a Circular Food Economy

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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Plass – Printing a Better World

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 […]

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The Second Skin: Future cloth production

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 […]

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Pressure Dependent Bioluminescence

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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Bac-net: freedom to communicate

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 […]

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Mycterials – Expanding The Mycelium Toolbox

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 […]

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Nurture – Growing meals at home

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 […]