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Eric Klarenbeek en Maartje Dros
Designer duo Klarenbeek and Dros based the design of these alge printed glasses on the original iittala Kaveri Glassware by Jorma Vennola 1979 as part of the 'Seaweed Cycle for The Breakdown Economy' at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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Studio Klarenbeek & Dros developed seaweed based biopolymers based on lab grown algae, that enable a remediating and fully circular local production chain, featured in the online (Covid lockdown) exhibition by Boijmans van Beuningen: 'The Breakdown Economy', 'De Afbreekeconomie'.
The studio has established the 'Seaweed Circle", a local production chain starting with the propagation and cultivation of seaweed embryos and ending with the production of Seaweed based biopolymers, 'Weedware'. Resulting in CO2-binding and biocompatible materials that restore ecology, stimulate biodiversity and break with the current destructive cycle of production.
This material replaces fossil-derived plastics, while at the same time binding carbon, reducing the footprint below zero: 'Algae grow by absorbing carbon and producing complex starches, natural binders, besides a variety of other valuable components, including pigments. These can be used for the creation of a new generation bioplastics and colors. The waste product is oxygen, clean air, at a scale exceeding the output of trees: algae, as the pioneers of evolution, provide 60% of the oxygen production on earth.
In the exhibition for Boijmans van Beuningen, 'The Breakdown Economy' our newest project Seaweed Cycle presents a world without plastic, placed centrally in the exhibition. Their developed material and startup is called Wierwaar (Weedware) at which they introduce a local cultivated and degradable alternative to plastic.
The Breakdown Economy was an exhibition about making and destroying things. It's not about economic growth and efficient production, but about the limitations of this model. How do we destroy everything that we, as humans, have made? In this discussion you can assume a radical position and lump everything together or adopt a more pragmatic attitude whereby a breakdown economy is in balance with nature. What connects all these ideas is not just that things can be done differently, but that they must be done differently.
