Design that Explores Cleaner/Better Technologies

This weeks lecture was about design that explores cleaner,better technologies. How can we use new emerging technology + nature to make sustainable design.

The way which, I tell you  it is naturel and do not need to spend anything. Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature and attempts to imitate it within design in a sustainable way. It is believed that nature has already solved many of the problems we are dealing with at the moment.
Many designers are studying bee's in nature to mimic the way they create their nests/hives. One designer has created a series of limited edition vases, the process is called ‘slow prototyping’. The designer allows the bee's to make their honeycomb hives in the shape of vases.

'Slow prototyping'

http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org

Suzanne Lee is a London based fashion designer working on fashion and future technologies.

She is a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Director of The BioCouture Research Project. Lee's latest garment - which uses these growing textiles - is the 'biocouture' jacket made from cellulose. Instead of coming from plants, the cellulose is produced by millions of tiny bacteria grown in bathtubs of sweet green tea.

Her pioneering project which demonstrates growth of a biomaterial using nothing other tan sugary tea and bacteria, will also be presented at this time. the 'eco-textile' is grown in flat sheets which are then cut to shape, sewn together or moulded over 3D forms.

jacket sleeve seam detail

I really want to try a new technology for myself it is 3D printing. I had never used this method in my models and projects, but I think it is a very useful way to present your ideas in a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. 3D printing is also considered distinct from traditional machining techniques, which mostly rely on the removal of material by methods such as cutting or drilling. It has been speculated that 3D printing may become a mass market item because open source 3D printing can easily offset their capital costs by enabling consumers to avoid costs associated with purchasing common household objects.

http://www.freedomofcreation.com

http://on3dprinting.com/2012/06/17/belgian-design-studio-unfold-features-beautiful-ceramic-3d-printing/

Patrick Jouin's 3D-Printed Bloom Table Lamp Opens Like a Flower

Future applications for 3D printing might include creating open-source scientific equipment or other science-based applications like reconstructing fossils in paleontology, replicating ancient and priceless artifacts in archaeology, reconstructing bones and body parts in forensic pathology, and reconstructing heavily damaged evidence acquired from crime scene investigations. The technology is even being explored for building construction.
In 2011 I was visited London Design Festival, an installation, curated by Murray Moss and focused on 3D Printing, was held in the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A). The installation was called Industrial Revolution 2.0: How the Material World will Newly Materialize.

A 3-D–printed replica of a 19th-century bust, with a hat by Stephen Jones, which was shown at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum

This is the Melonia shoe, 14 pairs of which currently surround the hot and sexy Bed of Ware at the Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of the big 3D printing installation

Processes invented using cleaner/better technologies & models from nature:

Light - Using light technology to cut, engrave & stick: laser cutting, laser etching, laser welding

Water - Using water to cut: jet cutting

Sound- Using Sound to stick:Ultrasonic welding

Heat- using heat to stick, cut and melt: welding, plasma cutting, reforming,chemical re-processing of polyester

Nano technology, shape memory alloys, magnetic shape, self-healing materials

Zero waste- Using every scrap: 3D warp knitting- on knitting machine all bits knitted together creating structure & form

Printing - 2D printing

3D printing- Spray on shape, Spray on fabric