Algae
The vision of the future of materials perceived by scientists in the 1950s – that time of technological optimism – was always centred on the high-tech, and I am sure that few, if any, considered that a future material might be as dull as a simple organism like algae. However, in the future we may see algae farms based offshore to harvest oil from this plant, from which a new breed of plastic can be produced.
Over many years, French designer François Azambourg has produced some visionary experiments within the world of design. These range from explorations into alternative methods of constructing furniture to a new solution for packaging materials, which is based on algae, that he developed with Professor Donald Ingber of Harvard University. ...
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