6. BioFabricating Materials¶
Research¶
The work from Alice Potts is beautiful! You can see more on her webpage: Alice Potts
* Image from the Webpage from Alice Potts
References & Inspiration¶
Also good References are dezeen.com and thread.com for focus on Bioplastic and Textil:
Process and workflow¶
It was again a witches kitchen ! We did the whole Process as a goup. It was my first time I try to make bioplastic, the first pot i made some gelatine burned also ...but the burned gelatine made a nice pattern in the plastic. It's feel also a little but uggly to create this new material - i keep some distance to the slimy materials.
But I knit a example with Agar thread. It was very slippery for knitting, and shrank a lot when it was dry. It was fun!
Our finally process output was a book with all the recepies and descriptions of the materials:
