Addressing space boo-boos with 3D printed skin bandages
In Germany, researchers are testing whether 3D-printed skin cells could work for wound care on long space voyages. The German Space Agency’s Bioprint FirstAid...
Pining for sustainability: Indian fruit processor to repurpose pineapple waste
In India, The Vazhakkulam Agro and Fruit Processing Company will soon begin producing cutlery and plates from pineapple leaves. A joint venture owned by...
Controversial artist to make diamonds from poop, unsold art
In Switzerland, provocative installation artist Christoph Büchel will convert his unsold work and DNA extracted from his own feces into lab-grown diamonds. The ongoing...
A humerus idea: Swiss designer makes light switches, electrical sockets from animal bones
In Switzerland, recent ECAL design school grad Souhaïb Ghanmi had a particularly unusual final project proposal: repurposing bones from the animal processing industry into...
Prized poop: Elephant dung bricks win design award
In Thailand, architect Boonserm Premthada has won the designboom social impact Design Prize for developing bricks made from elephant dung.
Made in the Thai village...
Three Little Pigs gives natural construction materials a bad rap?
In the Netherlands, the president of a climate change and inequality action group is huffing and puffing over the stigma associated with biobased building...
Hemp helps France claim world’s first carbon-negative building
In France, architecture firm lemoal lemoal has built what it claims to be the world’s first carbon-negative building, thanks in large part to the...
Home of the future may be 3D printed out of hemp
In New York, a consortium is developing hemp-based ink for use in 3D-printed construction applications. Black Buffalo 3D, a supplier of 3D printers and...
Cardboard shelters offer adorable woodland creatures protection after brush fires
In Australia, Macquarie University professor Alexandra Carthey has created biodegradable shelters for small critters that often struggle in the wake of brush fires. The six-sided...
Cork vacuum, RVs point to design renaissance
In Vancouver, online publication Yanko Design has done a deep dive on cork, the spongey bark material most often associated with wine. The extensive...