MATERIALS DESIGN FOR TRANSITION (MaDe/Trans) is an interdisciplinary research group focused on materials design, regeneration, ecology and sustainability. It promotes a design approach in which materials and processes act as active agents of environmental and social change, exploring responsible, circular and regenerative practices through material-driven projects, biodesign, DIY and craft-based methods, biofabrication and living materials.
The group adopts a more-than-human and interdisciplinary perspective, with research applicable across design fields, from product design to fashion and interaction design.
THE BIODESIGN AND MATERIALS DESIGN FOR TRANSITION LAB is a research laboratory dedicated to biodesign and to the development of material design practices oriented toward circularity and regeneration.
It is conceived as a space where design operates in the development of new materials from non-conventional resources, such as local and renewable biomasses, organic and non-organic waste, bacteria or other living organisms, through biofabrication processes, as well as DIY approaches and more traditional production methods.
