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Bosch Print

Haley Rich and Noah Bradford

The future of 3D food printers
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The Society for Seed Sovereignty

Henry Lindeman and Claire Greweling

A system of tools both digital and physical for people to spread the seeds and plant their own seeds of resistance. View the final presentation here

Terrabox

Bailey Wolf, Olivia Schardein, and Zach Dragony

Every year, Americans alone consume 35.7 million tons of plastic waste every year. Terrabox aims to eliminate all waste by streamlining the composting process for consumers. View the final presentation here

Metromart

Seth Jenkins and Margaux Rasp

Creating greater access to locally grown produce through the design of a transit market space. View the final presentation here

Milkmade

Birkley, Junglas, Kannikeswaran, Krutz, Wells

Plant Milk delivery service giving consumers options on different milks based off their location. Partnership with local, organic, farmers that practice crop rotation. Promotes different milks based on locational availability and encourages poly-culture farming. View the final presentation here

Mogo

Tim Heidegger, Ryan Anneken, and Kacy Lytle

How can we provide communities access to local, sustainable ingredients and culinary education that is convenient, accessible, and approachable?
The Mogo system includes vending emplacements distributed throughout urban areas that dispense mealkits and recipies as well as a companion app.

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The Catch

Emma Beck, Marisa Thoman, and Kallen Fons

The fishing industry creates hundreds of thousads of tons of waste each year in our global oceans. If the waste doesn’t change or stop soon, our oceans will continue to decline. Education through design is a powerful way to start a change. Designers and educators must learn the impact of waste in our ocieans, and begin to plan for sustainable change in our waters and for our wildlife. View the final presentation here
Afterlife Urban Composting is a suite of composting products, services, and programming for the beginner composter. Targeted at urban areas, Afterlife empowers people and communities to love their scraps. View the process book here
The Cincinnati Quilt Project delivers a physical quilt made by members of the Cincinnati community, a library of valuable stories and experiences from those members, and a context that links them together. Quilting is a skill that has traditionally been handed down from mother to daughter. It is an activity that would bring groups of people together during quilting bees or church events. This project is a formalization of an activity that has occurred for decades across all varieties of groups.

Gabrielle hopes to create something that has a clear value to the people who look at it. Read the stories. Look at the quilt in person if you can. Take away something you didn’t know before.

Clifford Hammoor and Erin Setser

Fish Sauce (hot sauce) is an experimental aquaponic hot sauce project that aims to engage with and investigate aquaponics as a sustainable growing method. While they wait for their first harvest, they present an exhibit on aquaponics to inform those curious about the process and to encourage well-rounded, critical discussions about sustainability issues.

The exhibit features a working aquaponic system and situates the topic in our current era of production-focused, technology-driven solutions to agricultural problems, questioning its potential for meaningful change.

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Hearth is a proposed co-living community in Cincinnati that offers more social, sustainable, and affordable housing. Co-living refers to a style of communal housing based on a growing philosophy around mutual co-operation. Hearth frames co-operative living as a response to America’s growing loneliness epidemic and remedy to the increasingly expensive housing market.

This project aims to grow overall awareness around communal living. It demonstrates the potential for co-operative living to positively impact the well-being of people in all phases of life, and invites viewers to reflect on how they live within their own communities.

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Virginia’s thesis project, Compai, is an application for residential composters. During her research, she found that potential users were scared of harming their yards by introducing a compost bin. However, by properly composting, bugs, pests, and odor should not be an issue.

Compai uses smart sensors to monitor compost health, measuring humidity, temperature, and aeration. It provides users with recommendations on how to balance their bins, articles to further educate users on specific topics, and a community to connect with other composters in their area. This application gives composters the confidence to know that they are composting correctly.

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The Hempoet Coffee Table is a case study of how industrial hemp can help evolve the furniture industry towards a more sustainable future. It explores a brand new material called HempWood, and utilizes symbiotic design tools to reach an elegant bio-industrial solution. Noah’s goal with this project is to help grow demand for hemp as a commodity material, and along the way found poetry in the process. Hempoet offers a glimpse at how nature can elevate our wasteful, ever-moving world to a refreshingly new era.

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The Field Collective, is a product, brand, and business concept designed to challenge current perceptions surrounding waste, sustainability, and brand-consumer relationships. Consumer apathy towards waste and consumption is killing our planet. The current materials we are using take a significant toll, from production to decomposition, and it’s on us to find viable alternatives before it’s too late.

Alexis has spent the last year developing a biomaterial from corn husk waste to demonstrate how brands can use local waste streams to create sustainable and regenerative production processes that add meaningful value and story to the consumer experience.

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Compostable is a system designed to enable more people to compost in their backyards. The system includes multiple bins, a cart, a sifter and informational materials. Each component is made of lightweight panels that are easily screwed together by the user. Composting is an underutilized method of waste management. About 28% of what is currently sent to landfills could be composted instead and used to enrich soil rather than pollute it.

By making composting simple to get started, easy to understand, nice to look at and flexible to use, Compostable increases the amount of people who choose to compost in their backyard.

View the process book here

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