|
🍥 Cook up DIY solutions at home
|
|
7 ways to get creative with what you've got
Get up off the sofa, grab your apron and biggest saucepan, sort through your junk and get crafty with us. Becuase this March we're celebrating A Circular World and this newsletter is dedicated to YOU, as we focus on ways we can all get involved in creating a better tomorrow thanks to these materials with a twist.
You too can fix the future with these 7 creative, easy and fun DIY projects...
|
|
🍳 1 Boil bioplastic from algae
“We need to introduce more circular economy projects, to prevent plastic from ending up in a landfill or the sea." – Margarita Talep
CHILE – Designer Margarita Talep has developed her own eco-friendly biodegradable packaging as a substitute for plastic – using raw material extracted from algae. You can create it in a rainbow of hues using the skins of fruits and veg. Find out how...
The future of biofabrication ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
✂️ 2 Make couture from junk
“I’m never going to look at a milk carton the same way!” – Judge Michelle Visage
IRELAND – Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when the whole world seems hell-bent on throwing away, the pioneering souls behind Junk Kouture are doing the opposite.
Fix up look sharp! ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
🎻 3 Play rubbish sounds
“The world gives us rubbish, and we return music to the world.” – Favio Chávez
PARAGUAY – An orchestra of young people at risk of social exclusion is turning waste from the largest landfill in Paraguay into recycled instruments. Meet Favio Chávez, the local musician giving lessons and second chances to the kids of Cateura...
From scrap to joy ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
⚙️ 4 Start your own workshop
“We develop machines to recycle plastic and share blueprints open source, free, so everyone can download and build them.” – Dave Hakkens
NETHERLANDS – Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. Want to start your own mini-factory with shredders, extruders and moulders? You can thanks to these video tutorials!
This is pretty crafty ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
🖨️ 5 Hack electronic waste
“From the shapeless earth to the earth as house shaped, we have the knowledge to build with no impact in a simple click.” – Massimo Moretti
TOGO – Within hacker space WoeLab, Africa’s first space for democratic technology, a Togolese inventor has turned imported e-waste into over twenty 3D printers – inspired by the Prusa Mendel, which is known as “the Ford Model T of 3D printers”.
Enter the “street-level FabLab” ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
👩🍳 6 Cook plastics on your stove
“Our recipes use locally abundant natural ingredients & life-friendly chemistry." – Liz Corbin
UK – Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and learn how to cook up the regenerative materials of the future. You’ve entered the culinary world of Materiom, the circular design experts with recipes for sustainable alternatives to plastics, ceramics and fabrics.
Create your own biobag ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
⭕ 7 Help design go viral
“Thousands of people are making the transition to a regenerative economy thanks to access to the means of production." – Tomás Diez
CATALONIA – Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. You can, thanks to Fab City, a global team of pioneers building a more sustainable new world – collectively – through public digital fabrication spaces in cities, towns and villages.
Join a DIY city ► EN / ES / CAT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
