swiss design association

ARS - Material Development from Agricultural Residues
Kunde: HGK Basel
Rechte: HGK Basel
Zeitraum: 2021

This potato is not big enough, this one is too big. Unfortunately, a large part of our society still lives under the assumption that nature only provides us with "perfect" food. This leads to an incredibly high amount of agricultural residues, prompting Jasmine Jetzer and me to ponder. What actually happens to these sorted-out foods? With this question, we began our research, which took us from local farmers through incineration plants to startups and large industrial companies. We gathered our findings and formulated our idea: In Switzerland, there is so much agricultural residue that we have an excess of compost. Compost itself is not a bad thing, but unfortunately, you can't do much with too much of it. So, we decided to develop an intermediate step that interrupts the path from agricultural residue to compost. The idea is to create a material that consists largely of agricultural residue and can, at the same time, compost itself after its lifespan.