COMPO Raw material-centred materials research course
Invasive plants as renewable raw material sources
The COMPO course series experiments with a raw material-centred approach to sustainable object making and contemporary approaches to sensitive interaction with nature, while exploring possible aspects of design responsibility. The design process, which starts with the conscious selection of raw materials or materials, implements two design strategies. It approaches and revitalises industrial residues as raw materials, and initiates and integrates new composite material developments into design processes by exploring hitherto unknown or forgotten natural renewable raw material sources.
The spring semester course focused on the problem of invasive plants. Students conducted material experiments with the locally particularly widespread Green Maple. In the first phase of the study, the pigment value of the plant was investigated over a wide range, and in the second phase, the first steps of composite material development were carried out using and manipulating different formulations.
Course instructors:
Temesi Apol DLA
Gergely Tasnádi
Nikoletta Szakács
External consultant:
Attila Rigó, botanist
