Biomaterials
Plant Life exhibition imagines a future where “plants return as the dominant source”
Museum Vonk is “a testing ground for affordable bio-based construction”
Bugaboo makes pram from orange peel and old egg cartons
Finnish company launches “world’s most carbon-storing building material”
Student grows fuzzy fridge from bacteria to challenge norms around cooling
Other Matter launches bio-leather made from single-use signage
Arda transforms beer waste into plastic-free faux leather
Carbon Cell makes plastic-free alternative to polystyrene
Blast Studio launches Cupsan biomaterial made from London coffee cups
Stella McCartney debuts plant-based faux feathers at Paris Fashion Week
Biodesign adds “a whole new range of possibilities” to fashion says Iris van Herpen
Mycelium insulates experimental timber pavilion by Myceen and EKA PAKK
San Francisco exhibition explores the “radical imagination” of Rael San Fratello
Harvard University transforms waste wool into cladding for retrofits
Harvest Moon table fabricated with materials and tools from within a 40 mile radius
Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself
Natural Material Studio crafts lighting from leftover seaweed at Sticks n Sushi restaurant
Le Penhuel & Associés prioritises “warm and welcoming” biomaterials at French school
New York exhibition “reimagines the home” using furniture made of biomaterials
Spring Studio uses biomaterials to create sustainable interiors for World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea
PlasticFree makes database of hundreds of plastic alternatives “forever free to all”
“There’s still a lot we don’t know about rattan” say designers finding new uses
Poured Earth is a sustainable construction method modelled on concrete casting
