Material Library:
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What it is:
Materiom
Materiom provides open data on how to make materials that nourish local economies and ecologies. We support companies, cities, and communities in creating and selecting materials sourced from locally abundant biomass that are part of a regenerative circular economy. (Materiom.com)
Sandow
UC DAAP Students have access to UC's Materials Connexion Subscription, where you can find and sort materials by their properties, including sustainability properties. You will be prompted to use your institutional login.
SIDI x BOLT
Bioplastics investigated by the 2020 Sustainible Industrial Design Initiative and Bolt Threads team. SIDIxBolt Team.
Harvard GSD, RISD, The New School
Material Order is a shared database for design material collections managed by the Harvard GSD’s Frances Loeb Library, RISD’s Fleet Library, and Parsons Donghia Healthier Materials Library.
The New School
Parsons
Mindful Materials is a free platform with aggregated information on human health and environmental impacts for products from leading manufacturers, vetted by experts passionate about making it easier to make informed product choices.
The New School
Parsons
A database of innovative materials that we fully recommend checking out if you’re looking for inspiration, most notably their collection channels for Biobased, Sustainable, and Ecology.
Imagine if all our materials were nutrients.
Step into a forest. Dive under the ocean. All the biomass around you - all the living and dying and building of habitat - is a vast and continual production of materials. And yet forests have no landfill, the ocean no waste water. For billions of years, plants and animals have evolved to make materials with a particular set of ingredients that other organisms know how to source, use, breakdown, and use again. It’s time we took notes.
Materiom provides open source recipes and data on materials made from abundant sources of natural ingredients, like agricultural waste. By making this knowledge open, we accelerate materials development and lower barriers to entry in materials markets around the world. We work with companies, cities and communities to support the development of local biomaterial supply chains that nourish local ecologies and economies.
Step into a forest. Dive under the ocean. All the biomass around you - all the living and dying and building of habitat - is a vast and continual production of materials. And yet forests have no landfill, the ocean no waste water. For billions of years, plants and animals have evolved to make materials with a particular set of ingredients that other organisms know how to source, use, breakdown, and use again. It’s time we took notes.
Materiom provides open source recipes and data on materials made from abundant sources of natural ingredients, like agricultural waste. By making this knowledge open, we accelerate materials development and lower barriers to entry in materials markets around the world. We work with companies, cities and communities to support the development of local biomaterial supply chains that nourish local ecologies and economies.