£^_ \\Living materials
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It was an amazing course landed by Petra, she explained what is a Biomaterial and why now is so important to have a regenerative thinking and approach. She defined the difference between sustanibility and regenerative, with a light on the fact that the second one has a positive ecological impact.
It was an theories introduction in to this field.
We started with some historical topics: Limits to Growth is a 1972 report on the consequences of exponential economic and population growth with finite resources12. The report used a computer model to simulate the interactions between five basic factors: population, agricultural production, natural resources, industrial production and pollution132. The report argued that growth on Earth is limited by these factors and that human choices today shape the future conditions for life on Earth.
We talked about some tools and methodologies about planet's care:
L.C.A. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an analytical and systematic methodology that assesses the environmental footprint of a product or service, over its entire lifecycle.
C.2.C. Cradle-to-cradle (C2C) is a design method that aims to replace a make-take-dispose approach with a more sustainable approach
M.I. Materials Innovations (MI) is an interdisciplinary material science research devoted to experimental and theoretical findings on the synthesis, structure, charachterization, processing and applications of materials.
C.D.P The collaborative design process involves multiple stakeholders working together to create, refine, and improve a design project
How would you describe a BIOMATERIAL?
Key aspects:
Biomass sourcing
Material manifacture
Material collection
Sorting identification
Material design
Recycling and Composting
How would be the fabbrication process? Always, every time you should have write recipe and its size. So you'll nevere loose any kind of information and you can do more and more time the process.
In class we did some experiment to understand how to fabbricate a Biomaterial/Crafted Material/Living Materials. I really like this fabbrication process because it's a DIY approach which has a lot of techniques and praction.
We've visited Hangar Lab in Poblenou, a residence for various kind of artist.
Mix the gelatine in cold water. heat the solution and add the glycerine. Then once you see the foam forming on the surface add the activated charcoal in the mixture.
Mix woodwaste with graphite (to give conductivity to the material), dried orange pills (as nutrients) and mycelium. Once you've mixed, sterilize it and clean a mold where you will insert the material. If you wanna grown it faster probably you'll have to get wet the material with distillated water.
