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MaDe Participant
Name
Barbara Cerlesi
Material
Chlorophyll Plastic
Nationality
Italian
Classification
Vegetable
Workshop
Milan
Category
Industry
Profile
I am about to finish my master at Politecnico di Milano in the PSSD course (Product Service System Design). Through my path I participate in a double degree program (MEDes) which allowed me to study at The Glasgow School of Arts (service design) and at ENSCI les ateliers, Paris (Création Industrielle).
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Material Qualities
Color: green
Soft / hard: soft
Shiny / matt: matt
Texture: smooth
Others: translucent
Soft / hard: soft
Shiny / matt: matt
Texture: smooth
Others: translucent
Material Recipe
200 gr of grass
10 ml distilled water
1,5 g glicerine
1,5 g corn starch
1 ml vinager
10 ml distilled water
1,5 g glicerine
1,5 g corn starch
1 ml vinager
Material Application
disposable objects
bags
silicon-like kitchen suppliers
bags
silicon-like kitchen suppliers
Material Narrative
Grass is a natural resource which can be found almost everywhere in urban spaces. Chlorophyll in particular is the symbol of the capacity of plants of turning sunlight into matter, I find this extremely interesting and I think design can give more value to it. As an instance we could make bioplastics out it exploiting the cellulose for the structure and the pigment as color reference.
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