Bio-Smart Materials for Product Design Innovation
In the framework of design-driven material innovation approach and cross-disciplinary research practices, the aim of the MADEC's contribution is to make clear how Bio-Smart Materials are creating new opportunities to realize answers to the complex needs … Continue Reading ››
This is a research activity related to MaDe - Material Designers International Project. MADEC contributes to the project, the research activity, and workshops in the Politecnico di Milano. Our contribution mainly deals with Circular Materials for Creative Industries.
The project MaDe is run by the organizations Elisava, Ma-tt-er, and Politecnico di … Continue Reading ››
Investigating the relationship between the physical and the digital dimension of new surfaces has been one of the main tasks of MADEC in the last years.
On this topic, we give our contribution to the ICS_Materials research, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano.
After approaching a subtle link … Continue Reading ››
MADEC promotes the following lectures and seminars on ICS Materials that will take place at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano.
“ARGUING THE CASE FOR HOLISTIC DESIGN:
unpacking the relationship between materials and interactive experience”
Lecturer: Daniela Petrelli | Professor of Interaction Design at … Continue Reading ››
di Chiara Catgiu
The pine needles are nowadays of interest for the materials industry.
Pine is one of the most common type of tree, so there is no shortage of pine needles. Tapping into this organic, biologically degradable resource is, moreover, a simple matter, involving cooperation with branches of industry that use … Continue Reading ››
di Chiara Catgiu
A new fully sustainable and biodegradable plastic has been obtained from the tomato peel and it has been discovered starting from different projects and collaborations.
The EU-funded BIOPROTO (Bioplastic production from tomato peel residues) project main objective is in fact the fabrication of bio-plastics from the tomato fruit peel … Continue Reading ››
di Chiara Catgiu
A linear economy, that extracts resources at increasing rates, according to the principles of take-make-dispose, without consideration of the environment in which it operates, cannot continue indefinitely. The concept of a circular economy promises a way out. Here products do not quickly become waste, but they are reused to extract their maximum value before … Continue Reading ››
di Naike Cogliati
Potreste mai immaginare di usare il legno per produrre celle solari trasparenti? Ebbene sì, fra qualche anno sarà possibile e nel frattempo un team del KTH Reale Institute of Technology di Stoccolma sta mettendo a punto il cosiddetto ‘legno trasparente’, ovvero un tipo di impiallacciatura in cui il componente delle pareti cellulari viene spogliato … Continue Reading ››
