Laying Foundations for Material Innovations
Together with our research partners at Fraunhofer WKI, we lay the foundation for on-going research into Lignin based material innovations. Focussing on the waste of the paper industry, we developed starting points for further research. With impressive results, Black Liquor was the foundation for the on-going research project LignoLight.
»The ‘Black Liquor’ project is particularly convincing in terms of design consistency. Along the question of which materials are actually sustainable, the designers develop possible scenarios for the material future. For Stögerer and Kempkens, for example, the accessibility of the information gained plays just as much a role as the formulation of potential application practices for the material or the question of reintroducing it into an ecological cycle by testing its compostability. With this award we acknowledge the recognition that one’s own role in the design process is only relevant if it is perceived with attitude, conviction and last but not least with creativity and a free spirit.«
Statement of the form progress Award Jury (Nina Sieverding & Anton Rahlwes)
Globally ca. 50.000.000 tons of Lignin are incinerated as Black Liquor
A collaboration between greenlab, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI, as part of the research project "Thinking Lignin Design," funded by the Fraunhofer Network "Wissenschaft, Kunst, and Design."
For more information, please visit our project website.