studio sanne visser explores human hair as a sustainable materials
Materials design analysis apply Studio Sanne Visser presents Domestically Grown, an interactive set up human exploration hair as an progressive, sustainable materials. Introduced on the Materials Issues Honest throughout London Design Pageantthe challenge invitations guests to expertise the complete course of, from reside haircuts to demonstrations of hair spinning and twine making, leading to an exhibition of design objects created from hair. The set up emphasizes collaboration and the round financial system, with a number of different designers contributing their imaginative and prescient. 9 studios, together with Helen Kirkum Studio, Lauren MacDonald and Wilkinson & Rivera, combine Visser's hair-based supplies into a wide range of merchandise, from high-quality inside objects to distinctive equipment.
Specializing in collaboration in her work, says Sanne Visser, “I work independently, however I’d by no means say I work alone.” This ethos is on the coronary heart of the set up, progressive design and ecological duty coming collectively by means of collective creativity and sustainable materials innovation.
Hat by Rein Reitsma | all photographs by Rocio Chacon except in any other case famous
Domestically grown exhibits the potential of hair in tackling challenges
Constructing on Studio Sanne Visser's earlier work, together with its debut at London's Design Museum in 2022, the Domestically Grown set up transforms hair from waste to useful resource. As a part of an ongoing evolution, The studios in London new pilot recycling centre, HairCycle in Stratford, has been accumulating hair from Newham salons and barbershops since February 2024. The purpose is to repurpose this materials, which might in any other case hurt the surroundings, into bio-based fibres, ropes and cords. The exhibition additionally highlights the potential of hair past client merchandise. Designers resembling City Radicals, Biocrafted x Coral Gardeners and R-City use hair in analysis initiatives aimed toward tackling environmental challenges. Purposes vary from creating fertilizers for city parks to growing supplies that may assist restore coral reefs.
Homewares by Helen Kirkum Studio, A Go well with To Bear in mind Me By Lauren MacDonald
Textile artwork by Mia Rodney
Domestically Grown explores human hair as an progressive and sustainable materials
offered on the Materials Issues Honest throughout the London Design Pageant