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Cristina Dan
Convertible Biodegradable Clothing
Sunday, 3 March 2024

Omdanne

SOLVE design studio presents its capsule collection Omdanne which includes three pieces of clothing that can transform into over 10 styles each, from jumpsuits and dresses, to trousers and jackets. Moreover, all three pieces are 100% biodegradable if buried in the soil. Looking to discourage excessive consumption, the collection makes use of natural, renewable resources, product life-cycle tractability and powerful magnets to create a sustainable design of multi-functional and biodegradable clothing.

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Stylianos Dritsas
Research Prototype
Saturday, 2 March 2024

Natural Composite Pillar

The prototype is one of the largest 3D printed biological artifacts today, created using a novel sustainable manufacturing technology deploying exclusively natural materials: Cellulose, which is the most abundant biomaterial on earth, associated with plant matter, and Chitin, a biomolecule extracted from the exoskeleton of insects and arthropods. The physical and mechanical material properties are in the range of high-density synthetic foams and low-density timbers. The artifact is based on renewable sources, widely available in nearly every ecosystem and naturally biodegradable.

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Jennifer Whitty
Reuse Clothing system
Friday, 1 March 2024

Fundamentals Range

The Fundamentals remanufactured clothing range and accompanying wholly transparent system unlocks the latent qualities of undervalued resources. The impetus for this work was the devastating effects of the current linear, 20th century ‘take, make, waste’ fashion system which is the 2nd most polluting industry on the planet. This design system provides a solution to utilize textile and clothing waste through a comprehensive design strategy which includes remanufacturing processes and 3 upcycling techniques; conjoined, spliced and pieced; which could be applied to any given garment.

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Carlos Quevedo Rojas
Intervention Heritage
Thursday, 29 February 2024

Matrera Castle

This medieval tower had partially collapsed in 2013, losing part of its imposing volume and putting at risk the architectural stability of the rest of the tower. With compatibility and authenticity criteria, the intervention looks at structurally consolidating the elements, to differentiate the additions from the original structure, avoiding mimetic reconstructions, and recovering the volume and tonality that the tower originally had as a landscape icon. The essence of the project is not intended to be, therefore, an image of the future, but rather a reflection of its own past, its own origin.

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Ben Koros
Affordable wind turbine
Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Wireframe

The wireframe program aims to bring affordable electricity to village households in developing countries by training locals how to build, service and spread the extremely cost effective WF II. turbine, made mainly out of recycled components - and teaching chosen residents how to create the most efficient turbines and reliable electrical grid and infrastructure from regionally given materials, with accessible technologies and tools.

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Forge Media + Design
Immersive Learning Experience
Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Holodomor Mobile Classroom

To educate students about the Ukrainian Genocide, Forge helped to transform a bus into a traveling classroom, employing 32 iPads, a MacPro server, two custom-built iPad apps, and an interactive presentation that plays on a giant 24-ft display. The immersive digital classroom experience creates opportunities for students to investigate, discover, discuss and reflect. Seamlessly stitching together a series of diverse technologies and content, the result was a cohesive platform with which the Holodomor National Awareness Tour could impart a powerful lesson to students across North America.

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