work in progress: By using traditional craft techniques, together with textile resist principles, natural colouring and digital technologies, I am working on the development of new kinds of mycelium skins and surfaces for the luxury market. Collection to be unveiled in 2016.
| project type | a design research initiative co-led by Guillaume Foissac (ENSCI France) and Carole Collet (CSM) | project synopsis | ‘Botanical Fabrication’ is a research initiative which aims at investigating how an understanding of botany and horticultural techniques can challenge the design process and lead to alternative sustainable manufacturing and ‘eco-facturing’ tools. In a context where we urgently need to devise new principles to live, manufacture and consume within the ecological capacity of our finite planet, the paper […]