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To develop student kits for school, based on these sustainable techniques like Suzanne Lee is showing. I.e. biology combined with art class.
I've been searching for sometime for really intuitive experimental education kits. Because I believe that catching fascination of kids is the key to develop environmental intelligence.
It also engages people and in my case children with all of there senses. Internet is great, but it doesn't develop the senses in a way when we engage with an observing eye and feeling. So I propose a more experimental based education for weaving information together.
The way the world is perceived today depends much on processes we don't know about. Growing your own cloths will bring fascination back to everyday life; for the simple reason that it brings back bold ideas without the huge costs that most of the time are brought to table when dealing with innovation.
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In principle I think it's a great idea. Funnily enough I had a bit of an epiphany after speaking at a TEDx event in London last week. I met many designers from South America all looking for simple technologies that could be distributed to enable rural people to make use of local resources - in particular an abundance of waste sugar. It really got me thinking about trying to design a package or system that you could roll out to people who might want to grow/make biodegradable things for themselves at home, at school, within a village etc.
I need to think more about what would be required, how it might work, what kind of platform it might be, but it's a challenge I want to try to build into the research. Right now, clothing actually isn't the easiest of things to make with it - the material would be far better suited to many other applications but that's why I think it could be exciting to try to put something together that could be 'open-sourced'. If you have any thoughts on what might work in school please let me know!