Wasted
2019How can we shift people’s perception of waste, so that they view organic food waste as a resource with potential rather than an inevitable by-product?
Wasted is a project that aims to frame organic waste as a resource for making new materials and explore coloring techniques. It explores organic food waste’s role and how it has been used in the past by different cultures. The main inspiration comes from the Inuit culture, with a focus on their resourcefulness on using everything they had and their definition of waste. The project follows this approach and set of values and applies it to material development techniques in one of the areas where is most needed: the overproduction of organic food products.
Organic food waste is a familiar concept to most of us, meaning its easily accessible and a common problem in modern societies. Nowadays, we have waste in abundance everywhere around us and this project is trying to shift people’s perception of it. Organic food waste is an ever-growing resource that needs to be tackled with new design approaches.
The goal of this project is to create a material that can be made of materials readily found in abundance, such as surplus organic waste. It consists of a variety of experiments exploring the development of food waste as a raw material.
