Inspirational Case Studies
On this page, you find all the different case studies used to propose our Kingdoms Classification. They are contributions from designers all around the world, who we believe create a project starting from the material. Additional information is available at the following publications:
-Rognoli, V., Ayala-Garcia, C. (2021). Defining the DIY-Materials approach. In: Materials Experience 2: Expanding territories of materials and design. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN: 978-0-12-819244-3
– Ayala-Garcia, C. (2019). The Materials Generation. (Doctoral dissertation). Politecnico di Milano Milano. Retrieved from institutional repository.
Case Studies for Inspiration
- Crafting Plastics – Vlasta Kubušová & Miroslav Král– (Germany)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The cp! bioplastic was developed by the …
- Piñatex – Carmen Hijosa – (Spain)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Develops a sustainable textile made of pineapple …
- Bacco – Studio Natural – (Italy)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description ” Bacco is a collection made with …
- Biocouture – Suzanne Lee – (New York)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “Biocouture is building an open source ‘bioneer’ …
- Terroir – Jonas Edvard, Nikolaj Steenfatt – (Denmark)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The project contains a new material developed …
- Cooked Wool – Freyja Sewell – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “As we become increasingly bombarded with information …
- Grow a Roll – Stefan Schwabe – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “This set-up investigates how bacterial cellulose can …
- The Flax Project – Christien Meindertsma – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Flax is a material which used to …
- MYX – Jonas Edvard – (Denmark)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “MYX consist of plant fibre and mushroom-mycelium. …
- Leather Sun clocks – Lina Patsiou – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “Greek-born, London-based designer Lina Patsiou has created …
- Coleoptera – Aagje Hoekstra– (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “In the Netherlands, mealworms are bred for …
- Made by Bees – Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “Libertiny’s “collaboration” with honey bees pushes the …
- The Unimaginary Project – Beatrice Cordara – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The Unimaginary Project is a series of …
- Blood Bricks -Munro Studio– (UK)Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Animal blood was for a long time …
- Monilium Vite – Carolina Peréz Rodríguez- (Colombia)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description A material made out the cultivation of …
- Hempcrete – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Hempcrete is a biocomposite of hemp hurd …
- Transience X – Lex Pott – (The Netherlands)
- FiDu -Oskar Zięta – (Poland)Kingdom: Mutantis. //Description FiDU – innovative forming of the future. …
- Agar Plasticity – Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani, Akira Muraoka – (Japan)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Agar Plasticity is an ongoing material research …
- Harvest – Asif Khan – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The project’s starting point was to explore …
- Ruminant Bloom – Julia Lohmann – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “With Ruminant Bloom, Lohmann pushes the boundaries …
- Hair Highway – Studio Swine – (United Kingdom & Japan)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “Hair Highway explores the potential of human …
- The New Age of Trichology – Sanne Visser – (United Kingdom)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “How can we use human hair waste …
- Zwarthout – Pieter Weijnen and Zwarthout Team – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Shou Sugi Ban (burned cypress) is a …
- BioElectric – Jeongwon Ji – (Korea)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “When life gives you mitten crabs, make …
- Artichair – Kizis Studio – (Greece)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The artichoke thistle is an edible plant …
- De Algarum Natura – Officina Corpuscoli – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “De Algarum Natura originated as an investigation …
- Shaping Sugar – Amelia Desnoyers – (France)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Sugar is a basic cooking product, It …
- About a Pinetree – Sarmīte Poļakova– (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “This project focuses on the relationship between …
- Eggo – Sebastian Aumer– (Germany)Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description The ‘eggo!’ stool uses recycled pieces of …
- Sugar Glass – Fernando Laposse – (Mexico)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The project is a combination between kitchen …
- Oxidation Aftermath – (The Netherlands)
- The Fabric Project– Valentina Maino – (Italy)Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description A material created by drying clothes in …
- SPF Sugar Protection Filter – Federica Dellisanti & Tinka Jongerius – (Italy, Belgium)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “The use of artificial light has led …
- Grow-It-Yourself – Ecovative Design – (United States)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “GIY is entitles for “Grow-It-Yourself” material. After …
- Autarchy – Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin – Studio Formafantasma – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Autarchy is a materials approach that proposes …
- ReSurface– Helga Aversa – (Italy)Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description GFRP (Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer) is the …
- Algaemy – Essi Johanna Glomb and Rasa Weber – Blond & Bieber – (Germany)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “Algaemy investigates the potential of microalgae in …
- The Growing Lab – Officina Corpuscoli – (The Netherlands)Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description “One of the main challenges of the …
- Hidden Beauty – Studio Gutedort– (Germany)Kingdom: Animale. //Description “Hidden Beauty- Inner Skins asks the question …