Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files====== Table Vivant feat. Edible Crafts ====== **Experiments in resilient creative cultural practices.** In Table Vivant, monomaterial design concepts based on food source are explored to design edible tableware for a table landscape that includes food, textiles, tableware & dye sensitized and edible solar cells (Temporary photoElectric Digestopians). The table landscape will serve as a medium to communicate principles of resilience and interdependency. The project has 2 complementary goals: - to explore how food generates both calorific (Joules) & electrical energy (Watts) & how this parallel can be taken into account when evaluating ecosystems. - to learn from traditional crafts, biology, biomimicry & food science to design environmentally resilient cultural experiences. The starting point are plants with properties suitable for making food, textiles & solar cells (e.g berries). Local ethno-culinary traditions, biological & ecological context of the chosen plant is studied and a scenario for an ‘edible’ dining environment is designed. The experiment should be transferrable to different localities in Europe. Table Vivant is by the hands of [[http://www.carolecollet.com|Carole Collet]] (MA Textile Futures Course, CSM) and [[http://www.bartaku.net|Bartaku]] (FoAM) with the help of the Future Textiles CSM students. ====== Research ====== **Mushroom Packaging** "Packaging materials that are 100% renewable, and primarily made from agricultural byproducts and mycelium, a fungal network of threadlike cells. It’s like the “roots” of mushrooms. In 5 – 7 days, in the dark, with no watering, and no petrochemical inputs, the mycelium digests the agricultural byproducts, binding them into a beautiful structural material. The mycelium acts like a natural, self assembling glue. These low-embodied energy materials can be home composted when they’re no longer needed. This technology is a radical departure from traditional bioplastics. While feedstocks for bioplastics are typically food crops, we’re able to upcycle very low value waste products." - [[http://www.ecovativedesign.com|company site > ecovative design]] ====== Further reading ====== * Interview with Carole Collet - http://www.3lectromode.com/?p=343 * MA Future Textiles, Central Saint Martins, University of London - http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/ma-textile-futures/ * [[Edible Alchemy]]Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International resilients/edible_crafts.1359683030.txt.gz Last modified: 2013-02-01 01:43by maja