Connection with nature

This card helps you reconnect with nature by recognizing the origins of materials and products in your biodesign work.

• How will your biodesign project help bridge the gap between humanity and nature, and how will you aim to restore this lost connection? 

• How will you balance modern design needs with a desire to reintroduce natural products and processes into people’s daily lives?

• How will you communicate the value of naturebased products to a society that may have grown accustomed to synthetic or massproduced goods?

Rootfull

Designer Zena Holloway's project, Root, creates fabrics entirely from grass roots. By growing grass on substrates that guide the roots into intricate, natural weaving patterns, she transforms the root structures into durable, natural fabrics once the grass is cut and dried. Through this process, Zena beautifully reconnects with the natural world, harnessing nature's ingenious growth processes to craft materials for human use.

• Explore ways to integrate the natural origins of materials into your projects. 

• Communicate the origins and values of nature-based materials to reconnect people with their natural roots. 

• See Biocomposites Database on Biodesigntoolkit.com

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