Remixing Materials¶
Week 1 reflection¶
January 18
In this first session of the Remixing Materials course, Lara Campos has introduced us to the basic concepts of biomaterials.
Lara began the session by introducing us to the projects she had been working on over the past few years. It was very inspiring to see all those solutions he proposes through biomaterials. Personally, I was very interested in the project “Be grounded”. A project that proposes to improve the relationship between humans and nature through materials, using an emotional and artistic language. Also, I liked all those projects that use food waste, especially the “En(des)uso” project, which proposes various solutions to what we have always considered useless and invalid. I have to say that I was already aware of some of the projects presented, thanks to the intervention I made in Term 1 on food waste.
Then, Lara briefly presented the history of materials and how they have influenced each era of the evolution of human beings, allowing us to improve our quality of life. Also, we contextualize the current problem of using materials as unlimited resources and the impact this is generating on the biosphere.
On the other hand, he also emphasized that materials are more than their functionality and properties, they can also serve as tools to convey emotions, feelings and sensations. Proposing to the designers to select the materials to generate an interactive and sensory experience in the users. This area of exploration is of great interest to me. In my opinion, I think that there is currently a lack of value and affection for the materials that surround us, and therefore for the artifacts we use in our day. I firmly believe that materials can improve that relationship between people and objects. I also believe that the implementation of materials adding emotional values can help improve the life cycle of products, and consequently, the impact they have on the environment.
Finally, we had the opportunity to experiment with biomaterials using food waste as addictive. In the case of our group, we use avocado skin to create bioplastic fibers.
January 19
This class was taught at Elisava by Laura Freixas, a former MDEF student. Laura showed us several projects that propose solutions for the recirculation of materials. He also presented us with the project that we should do in these two weeks. Later, we visited Elisava’s material library where we had the opportunity to touch, feel and analyze some of the samples of the materials and also showed us interesting books about the materials. Specifically, I found one that might interest me for my project: “Material experience: fundamental of materials and design”.
January 25 & 26
This week Edu and Petra have presented us some prototyping techniques useful for the development of our projects, such as 3D printing, molding and casting. Personally, I have found very interesting the use of the 3d printer with materials such as ceramics or biomaterials. In my past I had already used this technique for prototyping but never with those materials. I believe that the use of these innovative techniques are the future for product creation and development. I imagine a future where each person has these machines at home, such they have washing machines or microwaves, for the production of each product they need. The simple and intuitive use of these tools will allow anyone to make use of it.
On the other hand, I also see it important to learn from ancient techniques such as modeling or casting. I believe that these techniques will remain with us forever, because of the properties and characteristics they bring to the final product. I liked to see that I can be able to put these techniques into practice, I have never had the opportunity to learn from them by doing.
Materials Narrative¶
Presentación de negocio ilustrado neutral de June Bascaran Bilbao
End of the course proyect¶
White and Black Minimalist Modelling Portfolio Video Presentation de June Bascaran Bilbao