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Beazley Designs of the Year 2018
(September 2018 until January 2019)
Designed by Studio Klarenbeek & Dros at Atelier Luma
Working at Atelier Luma in Arles, France, Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros have been exploring the potential of algae as a replacement for non-biodegradable plastics. The Dutch duo have been working with a local network of farmers and experts to harvest the natural material, which is then cultivated, dried and processed into polymers. These polymers are 3D printed into a variety of objects, proposing a new model for sustainable production.
The exhibition displayed 87 of the most innovative designs across fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design from the past 12 months, as nominated by design experts from around the world.
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This is one of the powerheads inside the aquarium covered by coraline algae, the growth made it clog and eventually stopped working, but strangely after one year it started working again.
A tropical reef in the subArctic ??
Well, Not exactly ... Actually an algae filled pond amid the miles of gravel tailing piles near Dawson City, Yukon, which were left behind by gold dredges following the tumultous Klondike gold rush of 1898.
Scenes like this speak to me of the fecundity and adaptive tenacity of life on Earth... Soon, these ponds will be thickly frozen over for 7 or 8 months, but all this life will survive to bloom again next season. August 18.
Lichen which are a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. Photographed at Bamff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, 2007.
27 Aug 2007. Helsinki, Finland. Greenpeace activists confront delegates of the ongoing Helsinki Commission meeting with algae and dead cod. 25 % of the Baltic Sea bottom area is already dead due to eutrophication and the cod stocks are threatened by overfishing. Greenpeace demands rapid action to combat the ocean crisis. The algae was collected in Helsinki the day before.
© Greenpeace/Matti Snellman