Materialized es una exhibición que busca sorprender y sensibilizar a las personas acerca de nuevas alternativas viables a materiales contaminantes. Esta muestra fue parte del Distrito Isola, una propuesta basada en la innovación, sostenibilidad y biomateriales; durante el Design Week Festival de Milán.
Los objetos exhibidos reflexionan sobre las posibilidades del material; imitando el cuero animal, las bolsas plásticas, el foam y el film plástico.
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Materialized is an exhibition that aims to surprise and sensitize visitors to new valid alternatives to polluting materials. This show is part of Isola District, focused on innovation, sustainability and biomaterials; during Milan Design Week Festival.
The objects shown reflect on material possibilities, imitating animal leather, plastic bags, foam and plastic film.
7 to 12 June, Spazio Gamma
Research: Cristina Muñoz (D.Lab USFQ), José Francisco Álvarez (Biomat USFQ)
Collaboration: Marisol Romero (USFQ Moda)
ES FANTÁSTICO alude con ironía a la sociedad consumista que desconoce el origen de las cosas que utiliza y propone caminos hacia una relación circular con los recursos naturales empleados en la producción de objetos cotidianos. Todos los objetos que nos rodean son agentes económicos, políticos y sociales que han marcado un sistema de vida lineal, que facilita la compra y el desecho irresponsable. Esta exposición se ubica en la intersección de la ciencia y el diseño, para construir un imaginario de nuevas posibilidades de fabricación de útiles para la vida diaria, a partir de materias primas provenientes de desechos agroindustriales y domésticos; siempre abundantes en nuestro entorno cercano. ¿Podemos crear una consciencia colectiva para desarrollar procesos sostenibles? ¿Es factible adaptar nuestra cotidianidad al sabio metabolismo de lo natural? Mientras vivimos la revolución de los materiales biológicos, en ES FANTÁSTICO Cristina Muñoz construye posibles escenarios para un entorno sostenible y autónomo.
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IS FANTASTIC is an irony to our consumerist society that is unaware of the origin of ‘things’ and proposes paths into a circular relationship with resources employed in the production of everyday objects. All objects that surround us are economic, political, and social, creating an unstoppable linear system that facilitates irresponsible purchases and disposals. This applied research is the result of the intersection of science and design, fabricating raw materials available from domestic and agricultural waste, always abundant in our territory. Can we create a collective consciousness to develop sustainable processes? Is it possible to adapt our daily life to nature’s wise metabolism? While we live biological materials revolution, in IS FANTASTIC Cristina Muñoz builds possible scenarios for a sustainable and autonomous environment.
Curation: Paúl Rosero C.
Credits:
Research: José Francisco Álvarez
Collaboration: Soledad Romero, USFQ MODA
Ph: Lifestylekiki, Ana Lucía Ordoñez, Mato Bastidas, Pablo Jijón (CAC)
La infografía plantea un metabolismo circular de la ciudad, a partir de la reutilización de residuos orgánicos domésticos.
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This infographic suggests a city circular metabolism, reusing organic home waste.
Infographic design: Typostudio
This video shows biofabrication processes at D.Lab USFQ.
Credits:
José Francisco Álvarez (Biomat USFQ)
Esteban Ponguillo (D.Lab USFQ)
Editing: Daniel Luengo (Cine y TV USFQ)
This garment represents real data gathered from 2018 visualizations about the giant growing garbage islands travelling from Central America towards Europe.
Collaboration with Anastasia Pistofidou from FabTextiles Barcelona
Biomaterial: cassava starch, cochinille dye
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Marisol Romero, Fashion Designer
Photo: Imagine Colors Studio
Model: Valeria Torres
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Self-sufficiency and connection with the environment, emphasizing the meaning of coexistence between different species.
Biomaterial: cassava starch
Credits:
Photography: Paul Rosero C., Kuai Shen, Joe Hoelberg
Editing: Joe Hoelberg
Direction: Cristina Munoz
Reseach:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Marisol Romero, Fashion Designer
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
What materials will wear our future? DIY dress, edible, locally grown material, compostable, 100% biodegradable, are only few of its possibilities.
Collaboration with Anastasia Pistofidou from FabTextiles Barcelona
Biotextile: cassava starch, cochinille dye
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Marisol Romero, Fashion Designer
Photo: Imagine Colors Studio
Model: Valeria Torres
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
What if future materials work as probiotics for our body?
Collaboration with Anastasia Pistofiduou from FabTextiles Barcelona
Biomaterial: cassava starch, cochinille dye
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Photo: Imagine Colors Studio
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Homemade sustainable fashion
Biomaterial: cassava starch with cochinille dye.
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Edible, compostable packaging.
Biomaterial: starch with cochinille dye.
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Alternatives to fruit packaging, as a replacement to plastic nets the used for street market in Quito - Ecuador.
Biomaterial: orange pectins
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
María Jose Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Valentina Acosta, Biomat USFQ
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Homemade garments that keep native seeds that we can take wherever we go. 100% biodegradable and edible.
Collectively we can bring new realities to our lifes.
Biomaterial: cassava starch, cochinille dye
Native seeds: Sangorache
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
A prototype as an alternative to plastic bags.
Biomaterial: cassava starch with cochineal dye.
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
To fly and swing
Biomaterial: cassava starch, cochineal dye
Collaboration with artist Paul Rosero Contreras for Dark Paradise, Moscú
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Photo: Paul Rosero Contreras
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, BIOMAT USFQ
Material possibilities & new aesthetics.
Biomaterial: cassava starch
Tecnique: thermoforming at Fab Lab Diseño La Metro, Quito-Ecuador
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, BIOMAT USFQ
All these materials are made from organic home waste during quarantine: banana peel, pineapple peel, egg peel, granadilla peel; coffee residue, ash.
Binder: gelatine, alginate
They have super interesting features that could be used for multiple objects in our daily lives.
Credits: Materiom (www.materiom.org)
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
According to World Animal Protection, an estimate of 640,000 tons (1.28 billion pounds) of fishing gear is left in the ocean each year.
This biomaerials are 100% biodegradable and resist fresh water for about 5 weeks.
Biomaterial: pectin
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
María José Alvarez, Biomat USFQ
Valentina Acosta, Biomat USFQ
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Part of the process is to fail, sometimes unintended findings happen.
Biomaterials: sweet potato, cassava, carrot
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Photo: David Montoya
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, BIOMAT USFQ
Multifunctional dress, used as fruit collector. The ends of each of this pieces can be attached to each other to function as a bag.
Biomaterial: cassava starch with walnut (tocte) dye
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Creative Commons, FabTextiles Barcelona
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, Biomat USFQ
Biomaterials can be produced from organic waste (domestic or agroindustrial). Experimenting with them lead me more and more to the conclusion that it is possible to use them in our daily lives. The challenge is to create a system based on a circular metabolism of the city, were everything that is used keeps on circulating.
Some biomaterials are hard as leather, others flexible and thin as a plastic bag. Others feel spongy as foam.
Credits:
José Álvarez, Biomat USFQ
Viviana Quiña, Biomat USFQ
Collaboration with Anastasia Pistofidou, Fab Textiles Barcelona
Research at San Francisco University, D.Lab USFQ, BIOMAT USFQ