Bio Material Workshop

This workshop was organized by Ines Burdiles at a nearby elementary school in Poblenou with the aim to bring material awareness to children. Together we held multiple workshops in which children were able to explore concepts of materiality, circularity, and waste.

After a session of creative imagining and interaction with existing bio materials, created by myself and Ines Burdiles, children were prompted to imagine what they could make. The end of the session invited them to bring waste from their homes they could utilize in the next session as an ingredient in their own bio material exploration.

In this follow up session children created molds for their materials and cooked their materials. After pouring the materials in the molds we invited them to describe the process and evolution of their journey through text and illustration. Each of them was given a journal in which to write down their experimentation observations before discussing the process as a group.

The third and final session children explored the concepts of degradation with their final pieces with a group discussion on lifespans of materials. The aim of this conversation was to increase awareness of the material lifespans.