With an estimated eight million pieces of plastic pollution finding their way into the world’s oceans each day, and a possible 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces weighing up to 269,000 tonnes now floating in the open ocean, it’s unsurprising that bioplastics – materials made from sources such as vegetable oils, corn starch, straw and recycled food waste –set to be a ‘thing’ for the foreseeable.
Which is partly why STORE Store – which runs art, design, architecture and other creative workshops every week in and around its Coal Drops Yard venue – has made a Bioplastic Workshop by designer Zoë Powell the first of its series of Workshops Live sessions (from May 9th, 2pm-4pm, £15), which will be delivering group tutorials via participants’ device cameras on a bi-weekly basis for the foreseeable.
Powell – a materials researcher and designer with a decade of experience focussing on regenerative materials and processes, in collaboration with local communities – will, via an eclectic collection of abundant natural ingredients (including turmeric, agar and gelatine), bio-plastics and composites – demonstrate a material recipe and show participants how to create a biomaterial test at home.
Parents should also check out their Afterschool Club Online, which brings together artists, architects, engineers and designers to share product design and fabrication techniques.
A circuit- board, created at Afterschool Club
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