SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE / XXLab (ID)
“SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE” is a research project by XXLab, an Indonesian R&D collective with an exclusively female staff—designers, artists and programmers with a wide range of skills and points of view. Their ambitious goal is to combat water pollution and poverty in Indonesia. XXLab’s innovative procedure takes the toxic residues and polluted water that are byproducts of Indonesia’s intensive soy production and utilizes them as inputs for manufacturing edible cellulose as well as bio-fuel and biologically tanned leather. All the equipment and ingredients necessary for this treatment are low-cost, commercially available items. Plus, there’s no need for on-site experts to start up the process developed by XXLab. In do-it-yourself fashion, anyone can get busy in their kitchen at home.
credit: Tommy Surya Rahadyanto
SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE / XXLab (ID)
“SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE” is a research project by XXLab, an Indonesian R&D collective with an exclusively female staff—designers, artists and programmers with a wide range of skills and points of view. Their ambitious goal is to combat water pollution and poverty in Indonesia. XXLab’s innovative procedure takes the toxic residues and polluted water that are byproducts of Indonesia’s intensive soy production and utilizes them as inputs for manufacturing edible cellulose as well as bio-fuel and biologically tanned leather. All the equipment and ingredients necessary for this treatment are low-cost, commercially available items. Plus, there’s no need for on-site experts to start up the process developed by XXLab. In do-it-yourself fashion, anyone can get busy in their kitchen at home.
credit: Tommy Surya Rahadyanto