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This advanced studio investigates the power of products, systems and services to create positive social and environmental change. This semester, as social entrepreneurial designers, students will have the opportunity to work with EARTH University in Costa Rica. EARTH is at the forefront of identifying, testing and sharing techniques for sustainable agriculture in the tropics. Students enrolled in this course will investigate new uses for agricultural wastes and natural materials and develop in-depth proposals for the creation of new products that will benefit EARTH and its local and global communities.

During the 2011 spring semester break this studio will travel to EARTH University in Costa Rica to observe, collaborate with and present project concepts to the EARTH Community.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Material Abstraction



The last of the agricultural bi-products arrived at RISD this week!! Throughout the semester we will be working with sugar cane wastes, bagasse, rice straw and rice hull. The De-SE students are now working to develop panel samples by reconstituting and compositing these materials. Our hope is that through these samples we will discover processes and methods to transform these agricultural bi-products from “wastes” to “industrial materials”.
Posted by pgruits at 2:02 PM

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM

    Amazing. Please write about your time in Costa Rica!

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