Bio plastic textile

by Purva Chawla What really draws us to design products, processes, and their makers? For me, it is not so much the allure of finessed, matured end results, but the attraction to that which holds promise, and possesses seemingly limitless potential. It is this latter quality I

This project explored the properties of Bioplastic. The result is a piece consisting of many layers of different shapes, colours, and patterns. Made in collaboration with Rebecca Hult Lamberger, 2017.

brewing up a batch of bio-paper. This is a new recipe, using a different process; I get very clear and transparent paper as a result. I'm quite satisfied with it!

At the 2022 London Design Festival, Zena Holloway presented an intriguing collection of sculptures, products, and wearables grown completely from grass root! Ca

Fermenting bacteria spinning solid skins, plant stalks interlocking to form home-grown lace, human bone grown bangles: just a small selection of the ideas that are born when textile designers meet biologists, material scientists and physicists...

A catalogue of bioplastic recipes.

Microbial Skin by Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt. This is my microbial skin grower. Inside it lives a micro organism, when you feed it, it creates a microbial cellulose structure. The project is a part of "living art - live art", a collaboration between artscience students and Wetlab Waag Society, Amsterdam 2014.