Wood (chips)
Team: 12
Team members: Leander Bossuyt, Toon Nachtergaele, Lowie Vermaete
Coach: UGent (Francesca)
End results
Challenge: Many processes (if not all!) in our atelier generate scraps. A scrap of production is different than 'waste' because it is recurrent, and predictable. For example, I can anticipate that 3% of my plate material gets discarded during laser cutting processes. Working with the lathe is a good example: when we work with it, we produce a huge amount of wooden chips (the process is substrative!) of which we know the most important characteristics. Many challenges raise:
can we design in a way to decrease the scraps produced in our atelier?
once we have them (unavoidable) can we valorise them in other ways?
can we create new bio-based materials starting from them?
which applications are suitable?
how can we engage stakeholders in this process?
Starter kit includes:
Ingredients of interesting materials to mould
Samples of interesting materials to mould
Infrastructure needed:
Cooking pot
Various techniques depending on the identified application
Specific sources: