Material Things

How can we incorporate environmentally conscious design into everyday objects?

While visiting the materials library in Stuttgart, we became inspired to take a look at furniture design through emerging material innovations.

Design Team
Leo Rieß
Ella Murphy
Jasmine Shakouri

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 SOLUTION

A completely compostable piece of furniture that reuses old coffee grounds.

With an interlocking build, there is no need for additional screws to hold the seat together.

Following the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” mantra, we created the seat to use minimal amounts of our reused coffee ground composite while making sure that all parts of it are naturally compostable.

 
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