Ana Laura Cantera
Bioelectronic artist, researcher and professor at UNTREF University
Bioelectronic artist, researcher and professor. She has a Master degree in Electronic Arts at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), a Bachelor degree in Visual Arts at Universidad de las Artes (UNA) and a degree as Art Teacher at UNA. In her artistic productions she works with the concepts of natures, territories and horizontal entanglements with non-human organisms. She has founded Mycocrea –mycelium lab, where she works with grown designs and other biomaterials. Recently, she received the Global Community Bio Fellows fellowship at MIT, the ELAP Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (Concordia University-Montreal) and the First Prize Itaú Artes Visuales in Robotic Arts category.
Judge’s selections
Balancing Prize
Green Road : Upcycling plastic waste to pave roads
ASIA GREENROAD COMPANY LIMITED
The project is an awesome opportunity to reuse plastics as well as to clean the sea. It covers a need to transform petroleum-derived waste into raw material to serve the community in improvements of public space. The proposal has a lot of advantages regarding the products, but also considering the educational part that looks for awareness. To enrich the project, I would like to make some questions thinking about all the stages of circular economy: Have you studied how the “plastic asphalt” develops over time? How long does it last? and what happens when it breaks after time? How can it be discarded? Have you studied the impact this big waste could have in the environment?
Boardstones Prize
REstone
REnato lab
The proposal is powerful and necessary. It is appropriate and timely for the contemporary problem of technology expansion and the tons of e-waste. It arises as a possible solution to reduce this pollution and to resignify the discarded circuit boards into new designer products. From my point of view, it would be important to clarify the processes you use in order to be clear with the carbon emissions and with the difference with the incineration methodology. The more transparent the information is, the more efficient and coherent the products become. Moreover, it can be useful for communicating your project to people. I honestly think that you have very interesting and complementary partners that can make the production chain easier. It is very valuable to start organizing each step according to the abilities each part has. I would like to ask the scale you are thinking the project will have, and if you have measured the 83% of carbon emissions the project is said to reduce.
Remediation Prize
Malai Biocomposite - a novel plant based and home compostable alternative to animal leather
malai biomaterials design pvt. ltd.
The proposal is very interesting and it considers all the stages of the circular economy. It has lots of advantages, considering that the biocomposite helps to reduce the acidification of soils in India. You have some designs which are already solved as well as some processes of materials. It will be enriching if you have the option to offer the waterproof biomaterial instead of giving the task of sealing the biomaterials by themselves to those who consume the products. This fact would give you a plus and more quality considering that without any protection the bacterial cellulose is vulnerable to the environment humidity.
Free Sea Prize
Sea2see 100% recycled marine plastic
individual
The project is very interesting and solid. The reuse of plastics is necessary not only for having raw material but also to clean our oceans. The idea is very consistent and you have very solved the way of communicating the majority of the steps of each stage. However, It would be fantastic if you consider attaching to your products some instructions about the way these can be discarded to complete the circular economy phases. I really distinguish the visualization of the plastic collecting processes, as well as the social aspect of the proposal. It is an indication of commitment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and it enriches the project by making it very powerful. I would like to ask about the information you specify about using 1k of rescued plastic to make 1 frame for your glasses. What happens with the rest of plastic you don't use?
Circular Energy Prize
“Illuminate the Future -Mirai Terasu- Art project” - Recycle 800,000 tons of industrial waste.
ニシナカユキト GLASS STUDIO
The project is a very good idea to rethink the glass waste of solar panels and a starting point to reuse it once it is discarded. Art is an excellent way to generate consciousness and to show new materials to apply to other fields. I honestly believe the composite is a starting point for creating more products because it has a very aesthetic quality, an extraordinary surface finish and it has the same properties of glass with the advantage of being recycled. However, I reckon the detailed description of the submitted project is limited. The idea of using glass and the final material you get are sensational, but you need to establish concrete actions to order the different ideas you are exposing.