January 2, 2022
This is New Raw: Crafts Plastic Waste with Robots.
The New Raw is a research and design studio based in Rotterdam (Netherlands) founded in 2015 by architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki with the ambition to give new life to discarded materials through design, robots, and craftsmanship.
The New Raw develops its own (digital) craftsmanship techniques through a formal and technical language that highlights the texture and the layer-by-layer character of its in-house robotic manufacturing process. The exploration of the possibilities that the robotic techniques provide transform plastic waste into beautiful and meaningful products that are 100% circular.
Second Nature Furniture:Collaborator: Blue CycleLocation: Pireaus (GR)
Second Nature re-imagines an ecosystem where marine plastic is the raw material for a new economy, that uses technological and cultural innovation to bring about social change.
The potentials of this new logic are explored through developing a collection of digitally crafted seashells and objects, made from locally sourced ghost nets and produced with digital design and fabrication technologies.
Second Nature Film
Second Nature tells the story of ghost nets turned into a seashell; the symbol of sea’s cleanliness. The film follows Panos and Foteini (The New Raw) in their journey to recover lost fishing gear from the bottom of the Greek sea and transform them into a 3D printed collection of endangered seashells. The journey takes place in the small Greek village of Galaxidi , where the duo sets their mobile recycle lab and start gathering ghost nets in collaboration with local fishermen and divers, in order to upcycle them as raw material to 3D print the local protected seashell of Pinna Nobilis. It is quite common for fishermen to lose or abandon their fishing nets in the sea. These nets are called ghost nets, because they remain on the sea floor for years, continuing to trap fish and mammals. Ghost nets are considered to be the deadliest ocean trash and a major environmental threat, worldwide. In their “Second Nature”, the ghost nets show how design and technology can be used against marine plastic pollution.
