Medusae Project
Charlotte van Alem
The increase of the jellyfish population
is a result of overfishing, pollution and
climate change. Due to these activities the
biodiversity changes and the balance in
the ocean is disturbed. Compared to other
marine life, jellyfish seem to thrive in these
conditions. For a sustainable solution,
stranded jellyfish may be a potential
starting point to create material from.
Fruitleather
Hugo de Boon
Koen Meerkerk
By producing this on large scale with the
unsellable fruits from the market, a new
kind of material is created. This material
can be used in many different ways,
creating many different products. We
ourselves have created a design bag made
completely out of the fruitleather material.
The bag shows the quality and possibilities
that fruitleather has to offer as a material.
Willow Project
Birta Rós Brynjólfsdóttir
Björn Steinar Jóhannesson
Emilía Sigurðardóttir
Johanna Seelemann
Kristín Sigurðardóttir
Theodóra Mjöll Skúladóttir Jack
Védis Pálsdóttir
The Willow Project was made by the
final year students in the product design
department of the Iceland Academy of the
Arts. It is is an investigation into one of
Iceland’s newly gained raw materials, the
willow tree. For centuries wood has not
been an accessible resource in Iceland. By
deconstructing the tree into micro scale
and reassembling the found elements,
the students rendered new materials
that could stand by themselves. Setting
themselves a frame of adding nothing
but water and heat, they further used all
byproducts as valuable resources. Inspired
by the circulation of natural matter, the
transformed materials are able to go back
to the forest as nutrition.
Appear
Birta Rós Brynjólfsdóttir
This project is sparked from a personal
interest in working with food waste.
Vegetable farming, and tomato growing in
particular, demands a lot of energy, water
and fertilizers so I wanted to explore ways
to fully utilize those resources. Avoiding
taking viable food from people, I decided
to focus on the plant itself. The plants are
regularly trimmed and once the tomatoes
have been harvested, they are disposed of.
Stonecycling
Tom van Soest
The StoneCycling concept initially started
at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, the
Netherlands. Co-founder of the company
Tom van Soest focussed during his studies
on using the full potential of waste to
create new building materials. Using the
waste materials as a starting point, he
started to grind, blend and process them
in different ways. This led to surprising
results uncovering the great potential and
value waste materials can have.
Umi Hashi
Yavez S.E. Anthonio
Because everybody loves sushi and that’s
not going to change. What should change
however, is the growing problem of plastic
pollution. This is a serious problem because
ocean plastic is breaking down into
increasingly smaller pieces. With as a result
that it’s finding a way into our seafood,
giving trash-to-table a whole new meaning.