Bio-strategies: how can Nature inform Packaging Design?

Bio-strategies: how can Nature inform Packaging Design?
EncontroCiência’22 – Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, organized by Universidade de Évora and FCT
Poster resented in Apresentado na Fil – Feira Internacional de Lisboa, 16th a 18th, May, 2022

This study was based on the Fabricademy Final Project.

It was a collaboration with my supervisor Gabriela Forman, PhD, from Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the collaboration with CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa; and research group REDES Research and Education in Design.

This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the Strategic Project with the references UIDB/04008/2020 and UIDP/04008/2020, and by PhD Research Scholarship FCT 2021.04708.BD.

The authors gratefully acknowledge TextileLab Amsterdam - Fabricademy collaboration.

Abstract

This project is a Material Driven Study on Seaweed-based materials using Bio-Strategies: Biophila, Biomimicry and Biotechnology. The plastic pollution problems and textile waste concerns led this project to use Alginate from the brown algae regarding invasive alien species (invasive macroalgae) ensuring sustainable exploitation of resources for food reusable packaging. For this work, Alginate Biofilms and Bio-Plastic sheets were achieved, as well as the manual extrusion with a syringe (Bio-Yarn) for threads of bio-coated fibres with Alginate. It was also developed an open-source plywood Laser 3D loom to create a Spider Web biosystem-inspired bag for groceries. Results demonstrate that using Design using Bio-Strategies are relevant to Circular Economy and help to achieve products that are biodegradable.

Results

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