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(Re-Imagine Materials)
(2025)
Re-imagine Materials is a workshop series aiming to offer young people hands-on and playful experience to learn how to create biomaterials from local and organic residues, and to offer them the skillset to participate in the circular economy.
This project began with a simple observation: the process of recycling is largely invisible to the public. When we throw a piece of paper into an office bin, it disappears into a distant and complex infrastructure. We rarely see where it goes, how it is processed, or what it becomes, as recycling and production today rely heavily on centralised facilities and international operations. We live in a time when conversations about circular economy and material circularity are becoming increasingly urgent and relevant. Yet, the knowledge and technologies required to participate in it are not always accessible to most people. As a result, materials feel disposable, and the creative potential of waste remains hidden.
For us material designers, a lot of creativity and possibility emerge precisely from working directly with the things we discard. By learning to transform local organic residues into new biomaterials and functional objects, we can rediscover value in what is commonly overlooked.
We started Re-Imagine Materials workshop series with the belief that sustainability and bio-materials should not remain confined to factories or laboratories. They should be accessible to public through tangible, playful experience. To flip the conventional process, instead of sending waste away, we bring it back to the table at a local maker space, Maker V-10, as a starting point for a “decentralised laboratory”.
The workshops are structured around the knowledge of three aspects: (1) Material; (2) Deisgn; (3) Tools. Each area equips participants with the skills and understanding needed to engage with everyday waste and contribute meaningful conversations to a circular economy.
As a studio, we believe that the sharing of knowledge - whether embodied, textual or technological - is essential in making a circular world. It is precisely this belief that drives the creation of this publication: to reach a wider audience and inspire readers to explore, experiment, and take an active role in rethinking, reconnecting to, and reimagining our tangible, material world.