Emma Sicher

• Master in Eco-Social Design
• Doctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

A growing number of science and design scholars and design practitioners have recently embarked on studying fermentation processes to produce alternative materials. The main driver of this trend is the search for a sustainable future by proposing novel alternatives that could substitute or integrate into society's current production and consumption...

Biodesign is a growing discipline focusing on material futures, alternative production methods and more interdependent solutions with Nature. In particular, it fosters designers to interact with other microorganisms and living matter for the development of materials and potential applications often based on material tinkering and material-driven de...

Agriculture and food production play essential roles in defining the identity of a territory. While agrarian products are value generators for a region, the waste produced in the process is a mere byproduct with no or low value. However, in nature, the concept of waste does not exist since the residue of an organism is the nourishment for another....

Biodesign is a flourishing field which exemplifies a radical shift in designer’s role and a changing approach towards materials, processes and systematic thinking. Instead of choosing among conventional materials and manufacturing processes, designers actively engage in developing new alternative materials by exploring the potential of living organ...

Waste from food packaging and food processing raises a broad scope of critical questions to the food industry revolving around effects to man, nature and society. Reacting on this reality, designers are getting more and more involved as catalysers of innovative and interdisciplinary research by generating alternative proposals and scenarios for mor...