Design that looks at cleaner, better ways to produce technologies and fabrics is the way forward for design sustainable textiles i think, within this lecture we looked at various designers and artists that have come up with there own ways of designing sustainable products from scratch.
A designer that puts cleaner/better technologies into practise is Liz Ciokajlo, a footwear designer that only uses natural fibres from coconut husks and flax to produce amazing individual shoes! she uses bio resin to bound the shoes together, a natural substance. Using her natural substances she experiments and binds to make her own type of fabric to make the shoes out of one piece of fabric, mixing both hard and soft materials. Felt is also used in her shoe design, producing hollow heels for more of a lightweight feel and to produce a air supply to the shoes. Liz also uses moulded hemp and hardened flax within her shoes design. Liz's aim with this project was to objectify the shoe, exploring how 3D printing could alter footwear architecture and change the designing process of shoes.
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Markus Kayser's solar sinter is another invention using sustainable design to the max, the 'sun cutter' was taken to the egyptian dessert where it was powered by the sun on its solar panels to produce energy to work the laser cutting machine that was attached. The sun was directly thread through a glass ball to produce energy for the 2d low tech laser cutter. Incorporating the use of the sand within the dessert that the first operation of the solar sinter took place, sand at a certain heat can melt and then solidify just as glass would, this process is known as sintering and has become part of the design worlds major technique within 3D printing. By using the heat of the sun above and the sand below, two simple natural products can create and produce amazing 3D objects.
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Here i have uploaded the video of the sun sinter in action, an amazing creation and such a boost to sustainable design, using two completely natural substances that can be accessible from anywhere to create useable well made objects.
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Designing that explores cleaner better technologies, is using only natural substances and natural ways of designing. not incorporating harmful chemicals, water pollution or air pollution, stripping back and cutting right to the basics. A far better way for the environment around us and designing as a future. If objects can be designed and made just like the above have without any unnecessary process then surely that would be a better thing for all designers, artists and architects to explore. simple ways of designing beautiful end pieces.
Biolace- Carole Collet has explored the biological manufacturing of the celluar programming of morphogenesis in different plant systems, Carole Collet has imagined what these type of plants may produce and look like, her first a hybrid strawberry plant that produces both strawberries and lace webbing at its roots. This type of experimentation and research could mean in the future the control of genetic morphogenesis we could design plants to do and make exactly what we wish. An amazing creation this could be, transforming an object or something so it can have more than one use, including enhancing medical nutrition. A versatile and flexible product design that could change the future of plants.
Strawberry Plant and black lace, enhanced vitamin c and antioxidants.
Tomato Plant and edible roots, protein rich and enhanced uv protection.
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Suzanna Lee is a fashion designer, founder of the boicouture consultancy, exploring how a natural made or natural substance of the earth can be transformed into an everyday product we can use. Using products of one thing and transforming those/binding them with the products of an entire new product. A few products biocouture have been exploring are the fungi into cap, materials being grown from the fungal of mycelia, binding with waste crop matter into safely compostable and biodegradable biomaterials that can be used in all sorts of fashion. Using nature as a base and creating renewable biodegradable fashion for the future.
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